Environmental Stress, Adaptation and Evolution

1. Front Matter

   Pages III-XVII

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2. Extreme environments and adaptation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The evolution of plants in metal-contaminated environments

      • Mark R. Macnair

      Pages 3-24

   3. Responses of aquatic organisms to pollutant stress: Theoretical and practical implications

      • Valerie E. Forbes, Peter Calow

      Pages 25-41

   4. Conifers from the cold

      • Outi A. Savolainen, Päivi K. Hurme

      Pages 43-62

3. Genetic variation and environmental stress

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Phenotypic plasticity and fluctuating asymmetry as responses to environmental stress in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana

      • Paul M. Brakefield

      Pages 65-78

   3. Environmental stress and the expression of genetic variation

      • Nicole L. Jenkins, Carla M. Sgró, Ary A. Hoffmann

      Pages 79-96

   4. Worldwide latitudinal clines for the alcohol dehydrogenase polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster: What is the unit of selection?

      • Wilke van Delden, Albert Kamping

      Pages 97-115

   5. Stress and metabolic regulation in Drosophila

      • Andrew G. Clark

      Pages 117-132

4. Acclimation and response to thermal stress

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Phenotypic and evolutionary adaptation of a model bacterial system to stressful thermal environments

      • Albert F. Bennett, Richard E. Lenski

      Pages 135-154

   3. Ecological and evolutionary physiology of heat shock proteins and the stress response in Drosophila: Complementary insights from genetic engineering and natural variation

      • Martin E. Feder, Robert A. Krebs

      Pages 155-173

   4. High-temperature stress and the evolution of thermal resistance in Drosophila

      • Volker Loeschcke, Robert A. Krebs, Jesper Dahlgaard, Pawel Michalak

      Pages 175-190

5. Stress, selection and extinction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Genetic and environmental stress, and the persistence of populations

      • R. Bijlsma, Jørgen Bundgaard, Anneke C. Boerema, Welam F. Van Putten

      Pages 193-207

   3. Adaptation and extinction in changing environments

      • Reinhard Bürger, Michael Lynch

      Pages 209-239

   4. Environmental stress and evolution: A theoretical study

      • Lev A. Zhivotovsky

      Pages 241-254

   5. Stress, developmental stability and sexual selection

      • Anders P. Møller

      Pages 255-268

6. Evolution and stress

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269

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Most organisms and populations have to cope with hostile environments, threatening their existence. Their ability to respond phenotypically and genetically to these challenges and to evolve adaptive mechanisms is, therefore, crucial. The contributions to this book aim at understanding, from a evolutionary perspective, the impact of stress on biological systems. Scientists, applying different approaches spanning from the molecular and the protein level to individuals, populations and ecosystems, explore how organisms adapt to extreme environments, how stress changes genetic structure and affects life histories, how organisms cope with thermal stress through acclimation, and how environmental and genetic stress induce fluctuating asymmetry, shape selection pressure and cause extinction of populations. Finally, it discusses the role of stress in evolutionary change, from stress induced mutations and selection to speciation and evolution at the geological time scale. The book contains reviews and novel scientific results on the subject. It will be of interest to both researchers and graduate students and may serve as a text for graduate courses.

• Adaptation
• Drosophila
• Genotyp
• Mutation
• bacteria
• development
• environment
• evolution
• genetic engineering
• physiology
• population
• protein
• proteins
• regulation
• temperature

• Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

  R. Bijlsma

• Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

  V. Loeschcke

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