Tinkering No. 284
Subtitle: the Microevolution of Development
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780470319406
Subjects: Evolutionary genetics
Description: This book addresses one of the hottest topics in modern biology: the molecular genetic changes that drive evolution. Part of the prestigious Novartis Foundation series, this volume provides an excellent description of the microevolutionary changes known as tinkering.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Tinkering: The Microevolution of Development; Contents; The evolutionary developmental biology of tinkering: an introduction to the challenge; Tinkering: a conceptual and historical evaluation; Tinkering: new embryos from old; title: rapidly and cheaply; The relationship between development and evolution through heritable variation; Genetic networks as transmitting and amplifying devices for natural genetic tinkering; Butterfly eyespot patterns and how evolutionary tinkering yields diversity; GENERAL DISCUSSION I.; title: Tinkering with transcription factor proteins: the role of transcription factor adaptation in developmental evolutionTinkering with constraints in the evolution of the vertebrate limb anterior-posterior polarity; Affecting tooth morphology and renewal by fine-tuning the signals mediating cell and tissue interactions; GENERAL DISCUSSION II; Evolution of covariance in the mammalian skull; The developmental genetics of microevolution; The economy of tinkering mammalian teeth; Pelvic skeleton reductio.