From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design

by Carroll, Sean B.; Grenier, Jennifer K.; Weatherbee, Scott D.

• ISBN13: 9780632045112
• ISBN10: 0632045116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

rom DNA to Diversity represents the definitive synthesis of new material on developmental genetics and evolutionary biology. Written by a highly respected author team, this text will be the monumental work for shaping the field.nimals diverge from common ancestry through changes in their DNA, but what are the genes that control morphology? In this landmark work, the author team lead by Dr. Sean Carroll presents the general principles of the genetic basis of morphological change through a synthesis of evolutionary biology with genetics and embryology. The history of animal evolution, model system developmental genetics, and genetic regulatory mechanisms are first addressed, and then case studies of evolutionary change at different genetic and morphological levels are examined.

Author Biography

Sean Carroll is currently an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin Jennifer Grenier is currently a senior scientist at Mirus Bio Corporation in Madison, Wisconsin Scott Weatherbee is a research fellow at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City

Table of Contents

A Brief History of Animals	1	(14)
The Genetic Toolkit for Development	15	(36)
Building Animals	51	(46)
Evolution of the Toolkit	97	(26)
Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts	123	(26)
The Evolution of Morphological Novelties	149	(24)
From DNA to Diversity: The Primacy of Regulatory Evolution	173	(24)
Glossary	197	(6)
Index	203