The evolutionary interaction of animals and plants : proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held on 27 and 28 February 1991
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The evolutionary interaction of animals and plants : proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held on 27 and 28 February 1991
Royal Society, 1991
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"First published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. series B, volume 333 (no. 1267), pages 175-305" --t.p. verso
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Description
How far have the whole complex series of interactions between plants and animals influenced the evolutionary progression of each group? The topics dealt with here range from the fossil evidence for the earliest assault of the arthropods on the first land plants, to biochemical warfare between plant and herbivore, as each group has been driven to respond to the innovations of the other. Vertebrates and insects have, in their different ways, undergone major modifications of their structure, and particularly their mouthparts and gut, to cope with a vegetarian diet. But equally, the impact of browsing and gazing has forced higher plants to modify their programme of growth to cope with losing parts of the whole. This may have been one of the main forces favouring a flexible modular growth programme, rather than a determinate one. This collection of papers, together with the discussion that they provoked, is taken from a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held in February 1991.
It records the state of development of one of the fast-growing areas of biology and brings together such diverse fields as biochemistry, palaeontology, cell biology, mammal and insect behavioural studies, plant development and pollination biology.
Table of Contents
- Fossil evidence for plant-arthropod interactions in the palaeozoic and mesozoic, W.G. Chaloner et al
- fossil evidence for the evolution of biotic pollination, William L. Crepet et al
- fossil evidence of interactions between plants and plant-eating mammals, Margaret E. Collinson and Jerry J.Hooker
- how important is biotic pollination and dispersal to the success of the angiosperms?, Jeremy J.Midgley and William J.Bond
- abiotic pollination - an evolutionary escape for animal-pollinated angiosperms, Paul Alan Cox
- why do so few animals form endosymbiotic associations with photosynthetic microbes?, D.C. Smith
- marine plants and their herbivores - coevolutionary myth and precarious mutualisms, R.N.Hughes and C.J.Gliddon
- the influence of grazing on the evolution, morphology and physiology of plants as modular organisms, Erkki Haukioja
- optimization of gut structure and diet for higher vertebrate herbivores, R.Mon. Alexander
- evolution of insect morphology in relation to plants, Elizabeth A.Bernays
- herbivory and the evolution of leaf size and shape, V.K.Brown and J.H. Lawton
- on the evolution of plant secondary chemical diversity, Clive G.Jones and Richard D.Firn
- the evolution of cellulose digestion in insects, Michael M.Martin.
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