The Evolutionary Biology of the Threespine Stickleback (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198577287)

The threespine stickleback is a small fish of temperate coastal and fresh waters that exhibits extraordinary phenotypic diversity. Benefiting from its amenability to observation in the field and manipulation in the laboratory, Niko Tinbergen pioneered the threespine stickleback's use in behavioral studies and established it as a model system in ethology. This up-to-date volume incorporates reviews from active researchers who use studies of the fish to address a broad variety of evolutionary issues, including optimal foraging, armor variation, speciation, and the endocrine basis for correlated behavioral characters. The work demonstrates the value of viewing the biology of a single organism simultaneously from multiple perspectives. Students and researchers in ecology, evolution, animal behavior, and vertebrate zoology will find much of interest in this useful book.

Author: Michael A. Bell
ISBN-10: 0198577281
ISBN-13: 9780198577287
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/12/1994
Pages: 584
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.18lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.25d