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Title Tinbergen's legacy in behaviour : sixty years of landmark stickleback papers / edited by Frank von Hippel.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (iii, 539 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note "Including retrospectives by Desmond Morris, Theo Bakker, R.J. Wootton & others"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
"Bibliography of stickleback papers published in Behaviour, 1948-2008": pages 531-539.
Summary In a flurry of post-war productivity, Niko Tinbergen re-established his lab in Leiden, wrote landmark papers and his famous book The Study of Instinct, and founded the journal Behaviour to serve the burgeoning field of ethology. Tinbergen and his senior assistant, Jan van Iersel, published their classic paper, "Displacement reactions in the three-spined stickleback," in the first issue of the journal in 1948. Stickleback are now a powerful model in the fields of behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, developmental genetics, and ecotoxicology - an extraordinary development for a small fish that began its modeling career among an enthusiastic core of Tinbergen students in the 1930s. From a series of clever experiments with painted model fish to the use of the sequenced genome to analyze the genetic basis of courtship, stickleback science progressed in leaps and bounds, often via seminal studies published in the pages of Behaviour. traces sixty years in the development of science using stickleback as a model, with 34 original articles covering topics ranging from homosexuality and cannibalism to genetics and speciation. Desmond Morris, Theo Bakker, Robert Wootton, Michael Bell, Tom Reimchen, Boyd Kynard, Harman Peeke, and Iain Barber provide fresh retrospectives on their republished works. Commentary by Frank von Hippel accompanies the articles.
Contents Introduction : the stickleback model -- The reproductive cycle -- Homosexuality, cannibalism & sexual strategies -- Predators & parasites -- Physiology & behaviour -- Behavioural genetics, phylogenetics & speciation.
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Subject Tinbergen, Niko, 1907-1988.
Tinbergen, Niko, 1907-1988.
Sticklebacks.
Sticklebacks.
Sticklebacks -- Behavior.
Sticklebacks -- Behavior.
Animal behavior -- Research -- History.
Animal behavior -- Research.
History.
Animal behavior.
Indexed Term Multi-User.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Von Hippel, Frank.
Tinbergen, Niko, 1907-1988.
Added Title Tinbergen's legacy in behavior
Behaviour.
Other Form: Print version: Tinbergen's legacy in Behaviour. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9004170294 (OCoLC)457130349
ISBN 9004170294 (electronic book)
9789004170292 (electronic book)
9789004180420 (electronic book)
9004180427 (electronic book)
1282949373
9781282949379