Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: The evolutionary mystery of gamete dimorphism
- 1 The origin and maintenance of two sexes (anisogamy), and their gamete sizes by gamete competition
- 2 The evolutionary instability of isogamy
- 3 Contact, not conflict, causes the evolution of anisogamy
- 4 Nucleo-cytoplasmic conflict and the evolution of gamete dimorphism
- 5 Adaptive significance of egg size variation of aquatic organisms in relation to mesoscale features of aquatic environments
- 6 Gamete encounters
- 7 Evolution of anisogamy and related phenomena in marine green algae
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: The evolutionary mystery of gamete dimorphism
- 1 The origin and maintenance of two sexes (anisogamy), and their gamete sizes by gamete competition
- 2 The evolutionary instability of isogamy
- 3 Contact, not conflict, causes the evolution of anisogamy
- 4 Nucleo-cytoplasmic conflict and the evolution of gamete dimorphism
- 5 Adaptive significance of egg size variation of aquatic organisms in relation to mesoscale features of aquatic environments
- 6 Gamete encounters
- 7 Evolution of anisogamy and related phenomena in marine green algae
- Index
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- The Evolution of AnisogamyA Fundamental Phenomenon Underlying Sexual Selection, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011