Evolution and Development

This volume reviews current research findings and thought on the mechanisms that produce evolutionary changes in body plans over time

William R. Jeffery (Volume editor)

9780123744555, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 2 June 2009

464 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.9 cm, 0.65 kg

The marriage of evolutionary biology with developmental biology has resulted in the formation of a new field, evolutionary developmental biology, or “evo-devo.? This volume reviews current research findings and thought in the broad field of evo-devo, looking at the developmental genetic mechanisms that cause variation and how alterations of these mechanisms can generate novel structural changes in a variety of plant and animal life.

1. The Origin, Elaboration, and Radiation of Beetle Horns: Causes, Mechanisms, and Consequences
2. Regulation of mRNA translation and stability: the other cis-regulatory network in development and evolution
3. The role of Wnt signaling in the evolution of embryonic polarity
4. Patterning a spiralian embryo: cell lineage and signaling in the mollusc Ilyanassa
5. Evolution and Development of the Blind Cavefish Eye
6. Evolution of vertebrate appendage development
7. Gene regulatory networks in neural crest developmenta and evolution
8. New model systems for the study of developmental evolution in plants
9. Axis formation and the rapid evolutionary transformation of larval form

Subject Areas: Applied ecology [RNC], Developmental biology [PSC], Evolution [PSAJ]