The development of animal form : ontogeny, morphology, and evolution /

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The Development of Animal Form integrates traditional morphology and contemporary molecular genetics while incorporating research on postembryonic development. The result is unconventional views of basic animal organization. The book will interest graduate students and researchers of evolutionary an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Minelli, Alessandro
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Developmental biology.
Ontogeny.
Morphology.
Evolution (Biology)
Biologie du développement.
Ontogenèse.
Morphologie.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Anatomy & Physiology.
Developmental biology
Morphology
Ontogeny
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Nature of Development
  • Everything begun to the service of development: cellular Darwinism and the origin of animal form
  • Development: generic to genetic
  • Periodization
  • Body regions, their boundaries and complexity
  • Differentiation and patterning
  • Size factors
  • Axes and symmetries
  • Segments
  • Evo-devo perspectives on homology.

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