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9780674022409

Keywords And Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology

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    9780674022409

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    0674022408

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-09-01
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

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The new field of evolutionary developmental biology is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary biology. The fundamental principle of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") is that evolution acts through inherited changes in the development of the organism. "Evo-devo" is not merely a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary biology, the grafting of a developmental perspective onto evolutionary biology, or the incorporation of an evolutionary perspective into developmental biology. Evo-devo strives for a unification of genomic, developmental, organismal, population, and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change. It draws from development, evolution, paleontology, ecology, and molecular and systematic biology, but has its own set of questions, approaches, and methods. Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first comprehensive reference work for this expanding field. Covering more than fifty central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts, Keywords offers an overview of all that is embraced by this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
JOHN TYLER BONNER
Introduction: Evolutionary Developmental Mechanisms xiii
BRIAN K. HALL AND WENDY M. OLSON
Animal Phyla 1(9)
GRAHAM E. BUDD
Atavism 10(4)
MELANIE L.J. STIASSNY
Behavioral Development and Evolution 14(9)
GILBERT GOTTLIEB
Canalization and Genetic Assimilation 23(7)
ADAM WILKINS
Cell Determination and Differentiation 30(5)
ANDRES COLLAZO
Cell Types, Numbers, and Body Plan Complexity 35(8)
JAMES W. VALENTINE
Conserved Early Embryonic Stages 43(9)
FRIETSON GALIS AND BARRY SINERVO
Constraint 52(9)
KURT SCHWENK AND GUNTER P. WAGNER
Development, Evolution, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology 61(7)
SCOTT F. GILBERT AND RICHARD M. BURIAN
Developmental Genetics 68(6)
SCOTT F. GILBERT AND RICHARD M. BURIAN
Developmental Mechanisms: Animal 74(9)
BRUCE M. CARLSON
Developmental Processes That Generate Plant Form 83(11)
TSVI SACHS
Developmental Systems Theory 94(3)
JASON SCOTT ROBERT
Direct Development 97(5)
JAMES HANKEN
Embryonic Induction 102(6)
ROGER SAWYER AND LOREN KNAPP
Environment 108(6)
CARL D. SCHLICHTING
Epigenesis and Epigenetics 114(10)
GERD B. MULLER AND LENNART OLSSON
Evolution of Plant Body Plans and Allometry 124(9)
KARL J. NIKLAS
Evolvability 133(4)
JOHN GERHART AND MARC KIRSCHNER
Fossils and Paleobiology 137(8)
ARMAND DE RICQLES AND KEVIN PADIAN
Gene Regulation 145(7)
DAVID STERN
Genome Size 152(3)
ELIZABETH L. JOCKUSCH
Germ Cells and Germ Plasm 155(6)
MARY LOU KING
Growth 161(8)
JOAN T. RICHTSMEIER
Hierarchy 169(5)
STUART A. NEWMAN
Homeotic Genes in Animals 174(10)
ANNE C. BURKE AND SUSAN BROWN
Homeotic Genes in Flowering Plants 184(7)
HONG MA
Homology and Homoplasy 191(10)
DAVID B. WAKE
Inheritance: Extragenomic 201(8)
JAN SAPP
Inheritance: Genomic 209(9)
NORMAN MACLEAN
Innovation 218(10)
GERD B. MULLER AND GUNTER P. WAGNER
Larvae and Larval Evolution 228(6)
MICHAEL HART
Life History Evolution 234(9)
MARVALEE H. WAKE
Lineages: Cell and Phyletic 243(6)
DAVID R. LINDBERG AND ROBERT P. GURALNICK
Micro-, Macro-, and Megaevolution 249(11)
WALLACE ARTHUR
Modularity 260(8)
GILLIAN L. GASS AND JESSICA A. BOLKER
Morphology 268(7)
MARVALEE H. WAKE AND ADAM P. SUMMERS
Ontogenetic Integration of Form and Function 275(4)
SUSAN W. HERRING
Phenotype and Genotype 279(9)
KENNETH M. WEISS
Phenotypic Plasticity 288(10)
PAUL M. BRAKEFIELD AND PIETER J. WIJNGAARDEN
Phylogeny 298(11)
BRENT MISHLER
Phylotype and Zootype 309(9)
JONATHAN M. W. SLACK
Regeneration in the Metazoa 318(8)
ALEJANDRO SANCHEZ ALVARADO
Segmentation 326(6)
GRACE PANGANIBAN
Selection: Units and Levels in Developing Systems 332(9)
MANFRED D. LAUBICHLER
Space, Time, and Repatterning 341(8)
MIRIAM ZELDITCH
Speciation 349(9)
JUKKA JERNVALL
Time 358(10)
JOHN O. REISS
Variation 368(11)
BENEDIKT HALLGRIMSSON
References 379(78)
Contributors 457(4)
Acknowledgments 461(2)
Index 463

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