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9781107003262

From Clone to Bone

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  • ISBN13:

    9781107003262

  • ISBN10:

    1107003261

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-11-30
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

Since the 1980s, a renewed understanding of molecular development has afforded an unprecedented level of knowledge of the mechanisms by which phenotype in animals and plants has evolved. In this volume, top scientists in these fields provide perspectives on how molecular data in biology help to elucidate key questions in estimating paleontological divergence and in understanding the mechanisms behind phenotypic evolution. Paleobiological questions such as genome size, digit homologies, genetic control cascades behind phenotype, estimates of vertebrate divergence dates, and rates of morphological evolution are addressed, with a special emphasis on how molecular biology can inform paleontology, directly and indirectly, to better understand life's past. Highlighting a significant shift towards interdisciplinary collaboration, this is a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in the integration of organismal and molecular biology.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Molecular tools in paleobiology: divergence and mechanisms
Divergence
Genomics and the lost world: paleontological insights into genome evolution
Rocking clocks and clocking rocks: a critical look at divergence time estimation in mammals Olaf
Morphological largess: can morphology offer more and be modeled as a stochastic evolutionary process?
Species selection in the molecular age
Mechanisms
Reconstructing the molecular underpinnings of morphological diversification: a case study of the Triassic fish Saurichthys
A molecular guide to regulation of morphological pattern in the vertebrate dentition and the evolution of dental development
Molecular biology of the mammalian dentary: insights into how complex skeletal elements can be shaped during development and evolution
Flexibility and constraint: patterning the axial skeleton in mammals
Molecular determinants of marsupial limb integration and constraint
A developmental basis for innovative evolution of the turtle shell
A molecular-morphological study of a peculiar limb morphology: the development and evolution of the mole's 'thumb'
Manus horribilis: the chicken wing skeleton
Index
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