Adaptation and Natural Selection in Caves : : The Evolution of ‹i›Gammarus minus‹/i› / / Thomas C. Kane, Daniel W. Fong, David C. Culver.
The harsh environment of caves--dark, damp, sparse of food--is home to a variety of "bizarre" creatures. Biologists, for their part, often treat these delicate, colorless organisms having no eyes, or at least greatly reduced eyes, as mere oddities with little to tell us about a topic as gr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Caves as Evolutionary Laboratories
- 3. Gammarus minus as a Model Organism
- 4. The Ecological Theater
- 5. The Geography of Gammarus minus
- 6. Making a Case for Selection
- 7. Putting the Pieces Together
- 8. Questions of Time
- 9. Adaptation in Gammarus minus
- Glossary
- References
- Index