Epigenetics : linking genotype and phenotype in development and evolution / edited by Benedikt Hallgrímsson and Brian K. Hall.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Hallgrímsson, Benedikt.
• Hall, Brian K. (Brian Keith), 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Phenotype.
• Epigenesis.
• Genotype-environment interaction.
• Genetic regulation.
• Developmental genetics.
• Evolutionary genetics.

Physical Description:

viii, 459 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]

Contents:

• A brief history of the term and concept epigenetics / Brian K. Hall
• Heuristic reductionism and the relative significance of epigenetic inheritance in evolution / James Griesemer
• The epigenetics of genomic imprinting : core epigenetic processes are conserved in mammals, insects, and plants / Lori A. McEachern and Vett Lloyd
• Methylation mapping in humans / Christoph Grunau
• Asexuality and epigenetic variation / Root Gorelick, Manfred Laubichler, and Rachel Massicotte
• Epigenesis, preformation, and the Humpty Dumpty problem / Ellen W. Larsen and Joel Atallah
• A principle of developmental inertia / Allesandro Minelli
• The role of epigenetics in nervous system development / Chris Kovach, Pierre Mattar, and Carol Schuurmans
• Morphogenesis of pigment patterns : experimental and modeling approaches / Lennart Olsson
• Epigenetic interactions of the cardiac neural crest / Martha Alonzo, Kathleen K. Smith, and Margaret L. Kirby
• Epigenetics in bone and cartilage development / Tamara A. Franz-Odendaal
• Muscle-bone interactions and the development of skeletal phenotype : jaw muscles and the skull / Susan W. Herring
• Evolution of the apical ectoderm in the developing vertebrate limb / Lisa Noelle Cooper, Brooke Autumn Armfield, and J.G.M. Thewissen
• Role of skeletal muscle in the epigenetic shaping of organs, tissues and cell fate choices / Boris Kablar
• Epigenetic integration, complexity and evolvability of the head : rethinking the functional matrix hypothesis / Daniel E. Lieberman
• Epigenetic interactions : the developmental route to functional integration / Miriam Leah Zelditch and Donald L. Swiderski
• Epigenetic contributions to adaptive radiation : insights from threespine stickleback / Susan A. Foster and Matthew A. Wund
• Learning, developmental plasticity, and the rate of morphological evolution / Christopher J. Neufeld and A. Richard Palmer
• Epigenetics : adaptation or contingency? / Thomas F. Hansen
• The epigenetics of dysmorphology : craniosynostosis as an example / Christopher J. Percival and Joan T. Richtsmeier
• Epigenetics of human disease / Peter D. Gluckman ... [et al.]
• Epigenetics : the context of development / Benedikt Hallgrímsson and Brian K. Hall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780520267091
• 0520267095

OCLC:

656158730