Developmental Instability

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• M. J. West-Eberhard: ForewordContributorsIntroductionPart I. Origins1: H. F. Nijhout and G. Davidowitz: Developmental Perspectives on Phenotypic Variation, Canalization, and Fluctuating Asymmetry2: Christian Peter Klingenberg: A Developmental Perspective on Developmental Instability: Theory, Models, and Mechanisms3: John H. Graham, John M. Emlen, and D. Carl Freeman: Nonlinear Dynamics and Developmental Instability4: John M. Emlen, D. Carl Freeman, and John H. Graham: The Adaptive Basis of Developmental Instability: A Hypothesis and Its Implications5: Steven W. Gangestad and Randy Thornhill: Fluctuating Asymmetry, Developmental Instability, and Fitness: Toward Model-Based Interpretation6: Michal Polak et al.: Does an Individual Asymmetry Parameter Exist? A Meta-analysisPart II. Genetic Causes7: Charles M. Woolf and Therese A. Markow: Genetic Models for Developmental Homeostasis: Historical Perspectives8: Paul Alibert and Jean-Christophe Auffray: Genomic Coadaptation, Outbreeding Depression, and Developmental Instability9: John A. McKenzie: The Analysis of the Asymmetry Phenotype: Single Genes and the Environment10: Larry Leamy: Dominance, Epistasis, and Fluctuating Asymmetry11: Rebecca C. Fuller and David Houle: Inheritance of Developmental InstabilityPart III. Fitness Consequences12: Geoffrey M. Clarke: Developmental Stability--Fitness Relationships in Animals: Some Theoretical Considerations13: Mary Tracy et al.: Developmental Instability: An Appropriate Indicator of Plant Fitness Components?14: George W. Uetz and Phillip W. Taylor: Developmental Instability and Animal Communication: Fluctuating Asymmetry as a Signal and as an Influence on the Signaling Process15: Joseph L. Tomkins and Leigh W. Simmons: Fluctuating Asymmetry and Sexual Selection: Paradigm Shifts, Publication Bias, and Observer Expectation16: Anders Pape Mqller and José J. Cuervo: Asymmetry, Size, and Sexual Selection: Factors Affecting Heterogeneity in Relationships between Asymmetry and Sexual SelectionPart IV. Statistical Tools17: A. Richard Palmer and Curtis Strobeck: Fluctuating Asymmetry Analyses Revisited18: Stefan Van Dongen, Luc Lens, and Geert Molenberghs: Recent Developments and Shortcomings in the Analysis of Individual Asymmetry: A Review and Introduction of a Bayesian Statistical Approach19: Dmitry L. Lajus, John H. Graham, and Alexander V. Kozhara: Developmental Instability and the Stochastic Component of Total Phenotypic VariancePart V. Environmental Stress and Applications20: D. Carl Freeman et al.: Plant Developmental Instability: New Measures, Applications, and Regulation21: Ary A. Hoffmann and Richard E. Woods: Associating Environmental Stress with Developmental Stability: Problems and Patterns22: Vladimir M. Zakharov: Linking Developmental Stability and Environmental Stres: A Whole Organism Approach23: Brian Leung, Loren Knopper, and Pierre Mineau: A Critical Assessment of the Utility of Fluctuating Asymmetry as a Biomarker of Anthropogenic Stress24: Christian Peter Klingenberg: Developmental Instability as a Research Tool: Using Patterns of Fluctuating Asymmetry to Infer the Developmental Origins of Morphological IntegrationTaxonomic IndexSubject Index