Genetics in the wild /
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作 者：John C. Avise ; illustrations by Trudy Nicholson.
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ISBN：9781588340696
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Award-winning geneticist John C. Avise guides this delightful voyage around the planet in search of answers to nature's mysteries. He demonstrates how scientists directly examine DNA to address long-standing questions about wild animals, plants, and microbes. Through dozens of stories that span the world, nature emerges as a realm where truth can be far stranger than fiction. From a 100-ton mushroom to egg-swapping birds, extinct ground sloths to microbes inside our bodies, Avise examines a cornucopia of natural-history topics and explains how today's modern genetic techniques offer novel insights.
Do armadillo litters really contain clones? When is a fig tree not just a single tree? Where have migratory whales traveled? Who are the mothers of the embryos carried by pregnant male seahorses? What insect was the world's earliest farmer? How closely related are Neanderthals to modern humans? Answers to these and many more questions are presented here in a straightforwad manner that reveals Avise's enthusiasm for uncovering nature's hidden ways. Each entry is accompanied by a beautiful illustration from Trudy Nicholson, widely recognized as one of today's leading nature artists.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Table Of Contents:
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
Some Evolutionary Oddities 1(18)
The Panda's Pedigree 2(1)
Meat-Eating Plants 3(2)
Venomous Vipers and Their Toxins 5(2)
Giant Tubeworms 7(2)
Horseshoe Crabs 9(2)
A Tale of the King and the Hermit 11(2)
Plantlike Animals Full of Algae 13(1)
The Bacterial Bounty Within 14(2)
Jumping Genes: Nature's Real Movers and Shakers 16(3)
Clones and Chimeras 19(14)
Nature's Clone-Making Mammal 20(3)
The Lizard That Dispensed with Sex 23(1)
Amazon Sexual Parasites 24(2)
The 100,000-Year-Old Clone 26(2)
When Is an Individual Not an Individual? 28(2)
Chimeric Sea Squirts 30(1)
The Strangler Fig Gang 31(2)
Hermaphroditism 33(12)
The Fish That Mates with Itself 34(2)
How Snails Sow Their Oats 36(3)
Barriers to Self-Pollination 39(2)
More Sexual Confusion 41(1)
The Fish That Changes Its Sex 42(3)
Sex, Pregnancy, and Making Babies 45(18)
The Onus of Pregnancy 47(1)
Pseudo-Nuptial Flights in Pseudoscorpions 48(3)
Male Pregnancy 51(2)
A Bird That Chooses the Sex of Its Children 53(2)
Roly-Poly Sex Ratios 55(2)
The Social Equality of Gulls 57(2)
Extreme Social Behavior and Gender Control 59(2)
Reptiles Whose Sex Is Temperature Dependent 61(2)
Unusual Mating Practices 63(18)
Fatherly Devotion and Female Impersonators 64(3)
Female Accomplices of Male Cuckoldry 67(2)
Lizards That Play Rock-Paper-Scissors 69(1)
Birds with Roving Eyes and Cheating Hearts 70(2)
Treefrog Mating Ceremonies 72(2)
Swordtails' Tales 74(2)
Why Some Species Like Leks 76(2)
The Naked Mole Rat 78(3)
Novel Ways of Handling Eggs and Sperm 81(18)
Egg-Dumping and Wily Cuckoos 82(3)
The Nest Architecture of Swallows 85(1)
Egg Thievery and Nest Piracy 86(3)
Males Whose Body Parts Mimic Eggs 89(2)
The Storage of Sperm by Females 91(2)
Damsels and Dragons 93(2)
Beautiful Iris 95(1)
Eating One's Own Kids 96(3)
Dispersal and Migration 99(20)
The Tale of Mother Goose 100(2)
The Fish That Braves the Bermuda Triangle 102(3)
The Migratory Circuit of a Whale 105(2)
A Salute to Salmon 107(2)
The King of Migration 109(2)
Green Turtle Odysseys 111(3)
Sweet Bees with a Nasty Disposition 114(2)
The Ballast Travelers 116(3)
Island Life 119(18)
Darwin's Galapagos Finches 120(3)
Beautiful Flies 123(2)
More Exotic Beauties of Tropical Isles 125(2)
Radiant Plants of the Hawaiian Islands 127(2)
The Clinging Goby Fish 129(2)
Fabulous, Fabled Frogs 131(3)
Caribbean Cruises 134(3)
Species Proliferations 137(18)
Warbler Wardrobes 138(2)
Unity and Diversity in the Winged Aussies 140(2)
Evolutionary Trees and Elephants' Trunks 142(2)
Brilliant Butterflies 144(2)
Flocks of African Fishes 146(3)
Microbats and Megabats 149(2)
Anomalies and Paradoxes in Sunflowers 151(1)
Snapping Shrimps 152(3)
Wildlife Forensics and Conservation 155(18)
The Plight of the Whales 156(2)
Pinniped Penises 158(2)
A Tasty Turtle 160(2)
``Caviar Emptor'' 162(2)
An Endangered Bird in the Belly of a Snake 164(2)
The Ridley Riddles 166(3)
Lakes, Swamps, and Gene Pools 169(2)
The Fish Whose Babies Get All Mixed Up 171(2)
Some Genetic World Records 173(16)
The 100-Ton Mushroom 174(1)
Copepods: Nature's Most Abundant Animal? 175(2)
Mating Champions of the Insect World 177(1)
Lonesome George: The World's Loneliest Beast? 178(2)
Life's Earliest Farmers 180(2)
How Low Do Root Tips Go? 182(2)
A Fish Returned from the Dead 184(1)
The World's Most Shocking Marriage? 185(2)
The Planet's Most Common Vertebrate? 187(2)
Fossil DNA 189(14)
Ancient Asphalt Jungles 190(2)
Genetic Visions of Mammoths 192(2)
Facts on Bruin Evolution 194(1)
The Diets of Sloths 195(2)
The Demise of the Flightless Moa 197(2)
The Quagga Quandary 199(1)
Neanderthals and Us 200(3)
Epilogue 203(2)
Appendix: Molecular Genetic Techniques 205(6)
Glossary 211(10)
References and Further Reading 221(20)
Index 241
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
Some Evolutionary Oddities 1(18)
The Panda's Pedigree 2(1)
Meat-Eating Plants 3(2)
Venomous Vipers and Their Toxins 5(2)
Giant Tubeworms 7(2)
Horseshoe Crabs 9(2)
A Tale of the King and the Hermit 11(2)
Plantlike Animals Full of Algae 13(1)
The Bacterial Bounty Within 14(2)
Jumping Genes: Nature's Real Movers and Shakers 16(3)
Clones and Chimeras 19(14)
Nature's Clone-Making Mammal 20(3)
The Lizard That Dispensed with Sex 23(1)
Amazon Sexual Parasites 24(2)
The 100,000-Year-Old Clone 26(2)
When Is an Individual Not an Individual? 28(2)
Chimeric Sea Squirts 30(1)
The Strangler Fig Gang 31(2)
Hermaphroditism 33(12)
The Fish That Mates with Itself 34(2)
How Snails Sow Their Oats 36(3)
Barriers to Self-Pollination 39(2)
More Sexual Confusion 41(1)
The Fish That Changes Its Sex 42(3)
Sex, Pregnancy, and Making Babies 45(18)
The Onus of Pregnancy 47(1)
Pseudo-Nuptial Flights in Pseudoscorpions 48(3)
Male Pregnancy 51(2)
A Bird That Chooses the Sex of Its Children 53(2)
Roly-Poly Sex Ratios 55(2)
The Social Equality of Gulls 57(2)
Extreme Social Behavior and Gender Control 59(2)
Reptiles Whose Sex Is Temperature Dependent 61(2)
Unusual Mating Practices 63(18)
Fatherly Devotion and Female Impersonators 64(3)
Female Accomplices of Male Cuckoldry 67(2)
Lizards That Play Rock-Paper-Scissors 69(1)
Birds with Roving Eyes and Cheating Hearts 70(2)
Treefrog Mating Ceremonies 72(2)
Swordtails' Tales 74(2)
Why Some Species Like Leks 76(2)
The Naked Mole Rat 78(3)
Novel Ways of Handling Eggs and Sperm 81(18)
Egg-Dumping and Wily Cuckoos 82(3)
The Nest Architecture of Swallows 85(1)
Egg Thievery and Nest Piracy 86(3)
Males Whose Body Parts Mimic Eggs 89(2)
The Storage of Sperm by Females 91(2)
Damsels and Dragons 93(2)
Beautiful Iris 95(1)
Eating One's Own Kids 96(3)
Dispersal and Migration 99(20)
The Tale of Mother Goose 100(2)
The Fish That Braves the Bermuda Triangle 102(3)
The Migratory Circuit of a Whale 105(2)
A Salute to Salmon 107(2)
The King of Migration 109(2)
Green Turtle Odysseys 111(3)
Sweet Bees with a Nasty Disposition 114(2)
The Ballast Travelers 116(3)
Island Life 119(18)
Darwin's Galapagos Finches 120(3)
Beautiful Flies 123(2)
More Exotic Beauties of Tropical Isles 125(2)
Radiant Plants of the Hawaiian Islands 127(2)
The Clinging Goby Fish 129(2)
Fabulous, Fabled Frogs 131(3)
Caribbean Cruises 134(3)
Species Proliferations 137(18)
Warbler Wardrobes 138(2)
Unity and Diversity in the Winged Aussies 140(2)
Evolutionary Trees and Elephants' Trunks 142(2)
Brilliant Butterflies 144(2)
Flocks of African Fishes 146(3)
Microbats and Megabats 149(2)
Anomalies and Paradoxes in Sunflowers 151(1)
Snapping Shrimps 152(3)
Wildlife Forensics and Conservation 155(18)
The Plight of the Whales 156(2)
Pinniped Penises 158(2)
A Tasty Turtle 160(2)
``Caviar Emptor'' 162(2)
An Endangered Bird in the Belly of a Snake 164(2)
The Ridley Riddles 166(3)
Lakes, Swamps, and Gene Pools 169(2)
The Fish Whose Babies Get All Mixed Up 171(2)
Some Genetic World Records 173(16)
The 100-Ton Mushroom 174(1)
Copepods: Nature's Most Abundant Animal? 175(2)
Mating Champions of the Insect World 177(1)
Lonesome George: The World's Loneliest Beast? 178(2)
Life's Earliest Farmers 180(2)
How Low Do Root Tips Go? 182(2)
A Fish Returned from the Dead 184(1)
The World's Most Shocking Marriage? 185(2)
The Planet's Most Common Vertebrate? 187(2)
Fossil DNA 189(14)
Ancient Asphalt Jungles 190(2)
Genetic Visions of Mammoths 192(2)
Facts on Bruin Evolution 194(1)
The Diets of Sloths 195(2)
The Demise of the Flightless Moa 197(2)
The Quagga Quandary 199(1)
Neanderthals and Us 200(3)
Epilogue 203(2)
Appendix: Molecular Genetic Techniques 205(6)
Glossary 211(10)
References and Further Reading 221(20)
Index 241
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