The evolution of developmental pathways / Adam S. Wilkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkins, A. S. (Adam S.), 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental biology.

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

xvii, 603 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, [2002]

Contents:

Part I Context and Foundations 1

1 Evolution and Embryology: A Brief History of a Complex Pas de Deux 3

2 Information Sources for Reconstructing Developmental Evolution: I. Fossils 35

3 Information Sources for Reconstructing Developmental Evolution: II. Comparative Molecular Studies 65

4 Genetic Pathways and Networks in Development 99

5 Conserved Genes and Functions in Animal Development 127

Part II Case Studies in Pathway Evolution 171

6 Evolving Developmental Pathways: I. Sex Determination 173

7 Evolving Developmental Pathways: II. Segmental Patterning in Insects 205

8 Evolving Developmental Pathways: III. Two Organ Fields: The Nematode Vulva and the Tetrapod Limb 255

Part III Conundrums 307

9 Genetic Source Materials for Developmental Evolution 309

10 Costs and Constraints: Factors that Retard and Channel Developmental Evolution 363

11 On Growth and Form: The Developmental and Evolutionary Genetics of Morphogenesis 393

12 Speciation and Developmental Evolution 441

13 Metazoan Origins and the Beginnings of Complex Animal Evolution 467

14 The Coming Evolution of Evolutionary Developmental Biology 503

Appendix 2 Reconstructing Phylogenetic History with Cladistics 527

Appendix 3 Molecular Clocks 530.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-580) and index.

ISBN:

0878939164

OCLC:

48170763