Animal evolution : genomes, fossils, and trees /
"Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of w...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Oxford biology.
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Table of Contents:
- I. Origins of animals
- 1. The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance
- 2. The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geologic fossil records
- 3. Genomic, phylogenetic, and cell biological insights into metazoan origins
- 4. The mouth, the anus and the blastopore - open questions about questionable openings
- II. The Bilateria
- 5. Metazoan body plan origins: the larval revolution
- 6. Assembling the spiralian tree of life
- 7. The evolution of nervous system centralization
- 8. The origins and evolution of the Ecdysozoa
- 9. Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives
- 10. Molecular genetic insights into deuterostome evolution from the direct-developing hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii
- III. Themes and Perspectives
- 11. Invertebrate Problematica: kinds, causes, and solutions
- 12. Improvement of molecular phylogenetic inference and the phylogeny of Bilateria
- 13. Beyond linear sequence comparisons: the use of genome-level characters for phylogenetic reconstruction
- 14. The animal in the genome: comparative genomics and evolution
- 15. MicroRNAs and metazoan phylogeny: big trees from little genes
- 16. The evolution of developmental gene networks: lessons from comparative studies on holometabolous insects
- 17. Conserved developmental processes and the evolution of novel traits: wounds, embryos, veins, and butterfly eyespots
- 18. Reassembling animal evolution: a four-dimensional puzzle.