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Epigenetic principles of evolution /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: �Cabej, Nelson (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA, United States : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2019]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Elsevier insights.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the explanatory conundrum and the new perspective in modern biology
  • Part I. Epigenetic Basis of Metazoan Inheritance. 1. Control systems and determination of phenotypic traits in metazoans
  • 2. Neural manipulation of gene expression
  • 3. Epigenetic control of reproduction
  • 4. Epigenetic control of early development
  • 5. Neural control of postphylotypic development
  • 6. The epigenetic system of inheritance
  • 7. Adaptation to changed conditions of living and evolution
  • Part II. Epigenetics of Circumevolutionary Phenomena and the Mechanism of the Evolutionary Change. 8. Intragenerational developmental plasticity
  • 9. Transgenerational development plasticity : an epitome of evolutionary change
  • Part III. Epigenetics of Metazoan Evolution. 10. Origins of evolutionary novelty
  • 11. Evolution by loss
  • 12. Evolution by reverting to ancestral characters
  • 13. Epigenetics of sympatric speciation : speciation as a mechanism of evolution
  • 14. Epigenetics in health and disease
  • 15. Plant epigenetics.