The Evolutionary Biology of Flies

Edited by David K. Yeates and Brian Wiegmann

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June, 2005
Cloth, 440 pages, 60 line, 15 H/T
ISBN: 978-0-231-12700-4
$110.00 / £76.00

"By so smoothly covering every aspect of the evolutionary biology of flies, this book certainly lives up to its title." — Donald A. Windsor, Science Books & Films

"Authoritative, well written... Dipterists will profit from having this diverse material in one volume." — Bruce Heming, BioScience

"This book provides synthesis and update of the current knowledge base in these areas." — The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Flies have been at the heart of profound biological discovery. They are structurally and ecologically more diverse than all other orders of insects; they are paradigm organisms in genetics and physiology; they are the most effective vectors of diseases; and they have been the focus of revolutionary thinkers like Willi Hennig. This book integrates for

the first time the remarkable biology of flies and brings the study of these insects to a new level. " — David Grimaldi, American Museum of Natural History, author of Evolution of Insects

Related Subjects

• Biology
• Evolution
• Zoology

About the Author

David K. Yeates is Schlinger Fellow in Insect Systematics and a principal research scientist in the Australian National Insect Collection in the Division of Entomology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. He has published over eighty papers on the systematics and biology of flies and other insects. Brian Wiegmann is associate professor in the Entomology Department at North Carolina State University. His research is focused on fly phylogeny and the molecular evolution of fly genes.

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