Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Hall, Brian KAuthor
Olson, Wendy MContributor
Credo Reference (Firm)
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
2003
The new field of evolutionary developmental biology is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary biology. The fundamental principle of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") is that evolution acts through inherited changes in the development of the organism. "Evo-devo" is not merely a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary biology, the grafting of a developmental perspective onto evolutionary biology, or the incorporation of an evolutionary perspective into developmental biology. Evo-devo strives for a unification of genomic, developmental, organismal, population, and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change. It draws from development, evolution, paleontology, ecology, and molecular and systematic biology, but has its own set of questions, approaches, and methods.
Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first comprehensive reference work for this expanding field. Covering more than fifty central terms and concepts, from Animal Phyla to Variation, in entries written by leading experts, Keywords offers an overview of all that is embraced by this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.
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Introduction : evolutionary developmental mechanisms / Brian K. Hall and Wendy M. Olson -- Animal phyla / Graham E. Budd -- Atavism / Melanie L.J. Stiassny -- Behavioral development and evolution / Gilbert Gottlieb -- Canalization and genetic assimilation / Adam Wilkins -- Cell determination and differentiation / Andrew Collazo -- Cell types, numbers, and body plan complexity / James W. Valentine -- Conserved early embryonic stages / Frietson Galis and Barry Sinervo -- Constraint / Kurt Schwenk and Gu�nter P. Wagner. Development, evolution, and evolutionary developmental biology / Scott F. Gilbert and Richard M. Burian -- Developmental genetics / Scott F. Gilbert and Richard M. Burian -- Developmental mechanisms : animals / Bruce M. Carlson -- Developmental processes that generate plant form / Tsvi Sachs -- Developmental systems theory / Jason Scott Robert -- Direct Development / James Hanken -- Embryonic induction / Roger Sawyer and Loren Knapp -- Environment / Carl D. Schlichting -- Epigenesis and epigenetics / Gerg B. Mu�ller and Lennart Olsson. Evolution of plant body plans and allometry / Karl J. Niklas -- Evolvability / John Gerhart and Marc Kirschner -- Fossils and paleobiology / Armand De Ricqles and Kevin Padian -- Gene regulation / David Stern -- Genome size / Elizabeth L. Jockusch -- Germ cells and germ plasm / Mary Lou King -- Growth / Joan T. Richtsmeier -- Hierarchy / Stuart A. Newman -- Homeotic genes in animals / Anne C. Burke and Susan Brown -- Homeotic genes in flowering plants / Hong Ma -- Homology and homoplasy / David B. Wake -- Inheritance : extragenomic / Jan Sapp. Inheritance : genomic / Norman Maclean -- Innovation / Gerd B. Mu�ller and Gu�nter P. Wagner -- Larvae and larval evolution / Michael Hart -- Life history evolution / Marvalee H. Wake -- Lineages : cell and phyletic / David R. Lindberg and Robert P. Guralnick -- Micro-, macro-, and megaevolution / Wallace Arthur -- Modularity / Gillian L. Gass and Jessica A. Bolker -- Morphology / Marvalee H. Wake and Adam P. Summers -- Ontogenetic integration of form and function / Susan W. Herring -- Phenotype and genotype / Kenneth M. Weiss. Phenotypic plasticity / Paul M. Brakefiled and Pieter J. Wijngaarden -- Phylogeny / Brent Mishler -- Phylotype and zootype / Jonathan M.W. Slack -- Regeneration in the Metazoa / Alejandro Sa�nchez Alvarado -- Segmentation / Grace Panganiban -- Selection : units and levels in developing systems / Manfred D. Laubichler -- Space, time, and repatterning / Miriam Zelditch -- Speciation / Jukka Jernvall -- Time / John O. Reiss -- Variation / Benedikt Hallgrimsson.
The new field of evolutionary developmental biology is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary biology. The fundamental principle of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") is that evolution acts through inherited changes in the development of the organism. "Evo-devo" is not merely a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary biology, the grafting of a developmental perspective onto evolutionary biology, or the incorporation of an evolutionary perspective into developmental biology. Evo-devo strives for a unification of genomic, developmental, organismal, population, and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change. It draws from development, evolution, paleontology, ecology, and molecular and systematic biology, but has its own set of questions, approaches, and methods.
Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first comprehensive reference work for this expanding field. Covering more than fifty central terms and concepts, from Animal Phyla to Variation, in entries written by leading experts, Keywords offers an overview of all that is embraced by this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.
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