Key transitions in animal evolution /
DeSalle, Rob
Schierwater, B.(Bernd),1958-
Enfield, New Hampshire : Science Publishers,
c2011.
Introduction. A phylogenomic journey through the animal tree of life : key innovations in the evolution of Metazoa / Bernd Schierwater and Rob DeSalle -- Putting animals in their place within a context of eukaryotic innovations / Danielle Vazquez, Laura Wegener Parfrey, and Laura A. Katz -- Elucidating animal phylogeny : advances in knowledge and forthcoming challenges / Kevin M. Kocot, Johanna T. Cannon, and Kenneth M. Halanych -- Key transitions in animal evolution : a mitochondrial DNA perspective / Dennis V. Lavrov -- Pending issues in development and phylogeny of arthropods / Jean S. Deutsch -- The pre-nervous system and beyond : poriferan milestones in the early evolution of the metazoan nervous system / Michael Nickel -- A key innovation in evolution, the emergence of neurogenesis : cellular and molecular cues from cnidarian nervous systems / Brigitte Galliot -- From Cnidaria to "higher Metazoa" in one step / Ferdinando Boero and Stefano Piraino -- Basal metazoan sensory evolution / D.K. Jacobs ... [et al.] -- Cnidarian gene expression patterns and the origins of bilaterality : are cnidarians reading the same game plan as "higher" animals? / Eldon E. Ball ... [et al.] -- Key transitions during animal phototransduction evolution : co-duplication as a null hypothesis for the evolutionary origins of novel traits / Todd H. Oakley and David C. Plachetzki -- Vertebrate Hox genes and specializations in mammals / Claudia Kappen -- Field biology of placozoans (Trichoplax) : distribution, diversity, biotic interactions / Vicki Buchsbaum Pearse and Oliver Voigt -- Trichoplax and Placozoa : one of the crucial keys to understanding metazoan evolution / Bernd Schierwater ... [et al.] -- A food's-eye view of animal transitions / Neil W. Blackstone -- Lost in transition : the biogeochemical context of animal origins / Eric Gaidos -- Redefining stem cells and assembling germ plasm : key transitions in the evolution of the germ line / John Srouji and Cassandra Extavour -- Questions and discussion.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Phylogeny.
Evolution (Biology)
Genetic transcription.