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Understanding evo-devo /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arthur, Wallace (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Understanding life series.
Subjects:
Evolutionary developmental biology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword page
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1: What is Evo-Devo and Why is it Important?
  • What is Evo-Devo?
  • Origins of Evo-Devo: the Homeobox
  • Origins of Evo-Devo: Other Factors
  • Evo-Devo and Darwinism
  • The Importance of Evo-Devo
  • 2: Antecedents of Evo-Devo
  • Quasi-Distinct Stretches of Time
  • Nineteenth-Century Comparative Embryology
  • From Haeckel to Homeobox
  • Take-Home Messages From History
  • 3: Evolutionary and Developmental Essentials
  • Evolutionary Pattern
  • Evolutionary Process
  • Development in the Context of Life Cycles
  • Model Organisms
  • The Nature of the Developmental Process
  • 4: Evo-Devo Essentials
  • Developmental Repatterning
  • Developmental Constraint, Bias, or Channelling
  • Modularity and Evolvability
  • The Evo-Devo Hourglass
  • Body Plans and Evolutionary Novelties
  • Genes for Building Bodies
  • 5: The Evolution of Variations on a Theme
  • Levels of Evolutionary Change
  • Developmental Variation
  • Artificial Selection and Developmental Bias
  • Phenotypic Plasticity and Developmental Bias
  • Natural Selection and Genetic Drift
  • Natural Selection and Developmental Bias
  • 6: The Evolutionary Origins of Themes and Novelties
  • Developmental Bias versus Macromutation
  • Evolution of Reversed Asymmetry
  • The Nature of Novelty
  • Type I Novelty: the Turtle's Shell
  • Type II Novelty: the Centipede's Venom Claws
  • From Case Studies to Generalizations
  • 7: The Evolutionary Origins of Body Plans
  • The Pattern of Animal Relatedness
  • The Timescale of Body-Plan Origins
  • Mechanisms of Body-Plan Origins
  • Genes and Body-Plan Origins
  • 8: Body-Plan Features and Toolkit Genes
  • Homologous versus Convergent Features
  • Genes and Generality
  • Segments, Notch Signalling, and Hox Genes
  • Limbs, distal-less, and Dlx Genes
  • Eyes, eyeless, and Pax Genes
  • Gene Co-option in Evolution
  • 9: Bringing It All Together
  • A Combined View of Development
  • Towards a More Comprehensive Evolutionary Synthesis
  • Variation and its Interaction with Selection
  • Developmental Repatterning
  • Developmental Bias and the Direction of Evolution
  • The Origins of Novelties and Body Plans
  • The Pattern of Occupation of Morphospace
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Summary of Common Misunderstandings
  • References
  • Figure Credits
  • Index.