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Origination of organismal form : beyond the gene in developmental and evolutionary biology /
The field of evolutionary biology arose from the desire to understand the origin and diversity of biological forms. In recent years, however, evolutionary genetics, with its focus on the modification and inheritance of presumed genetic programs, has all but overwhelmed other aspects of evolutionary...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2003.
©2003 |
| Colección: | Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Origination of organismal form : the forgotten cause in evolutionary theory / Gerd B. Muller, Stuart A. Newman
- Problems of morphological evolution. Cambrian "explosion" of metazoans / Simon Conway Morris
- Convergence and homoplasy in the evolution of organismal form / Pat Willmer
- Homology : the evolution of morphological organization / Gerd B. Miiller
- Relationships between genes and form. Only details determine / Roy J. Britten
- Reactive genome / Scott F. Gilbert
- Tissue specificity : structural cues allow diverse phenotypes from a constant genotype / Mina J. Bissell, I. Saira Mian, Derek Radisky, and Eva Turley
- Genes, cell behavior, and the evolution of form / Ellen Larsen
- Physical determinants of morphogenesis. Cell adhesive interactions and tissue self-organization / Malcolm Steinberg
- Gradients, diffusion, and genes in pattern formation / H. Frederik Nijhout
- Biochemical oscillator linked to vertebrate segmentation / Olivier Pourquie
- Organization through intra-inter dynamics / Kunihiko Kaneko
- From physics to development : the evolution of morphogenetic mechanisms / Stuart A. Newman
- Origination and evolvability. Phenotypic plasticity and evolution by genetic assimilation / Vidyanand Nanjundiah
- Genetic and epigenetic factors in the origin of the tetrapod limb / Glinter P. Wagner, Chi-hua Chiu
- Epigenesis and evolution of brains : from embryonic divisions to functional systems / Georg E. Striedter
- Boundary constraints for the emergence of form / Diego Rasskin-Gutman.