Animal evolution : genomes, fossils, and trees / edited by Maximilian J. Telford and D.T.J. Littlewood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Telford, Maximilian J.

Littlewood, D. T. J. (D. Timothy J.), 1961-

Series:

Oxford biology.

Oxford biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Describing and understanding the evolution of the diversity of bodyplans is a major goal of evolutionary biology. Taking a modern, integrated approach to this question, a group of researchers describe how modern techniques and disciplines have been combined, resulting in a dramatic renaissance in the study of animal evolution.

Contents:

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Origins of animals; 1 The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance; 2 The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records; 3 Genomic, phylogenetic, and cell biological insights into metazoan origins; 4 The mouth, the anus, and the blastopore-open questions about questionable openings; Part II: The Bilateria; 5 Origins of metazoan body plans: the larval revolution; 6 Assembling the spiralian tree of life

7 The evolution of nervous system centralization8 The origins and evolution of the Ecdysozoa; 9 Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological, and palaeontological perspectives; 10 Molecular genetic insights into deuterostome evolution from the direct-developing hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii; Part III: Themes and perspectives; 11 Invertebrate Problematica: kinds, causes, and solutions; 12 Improvement of molecular phylogenetic inference and the phylogeny of Bilateria

13 Beyond linear sequence comparisons: the use of genome-level characters for phylogenetic reconstruction14 The animal in the genome: comparative genomics and evolution; 15 MicroRNAs and metazoan phylogeny: big trees from little genes; 16 The evolution of developmental gene networks: lessons from comparative studies on holometabolous insects; 17 Conserved developmental processes and the evolution of novel traits: wounds, embryos, veins, and butterfly eyespots; 18 Reassembling animal evolution: a four-dimensional puzzle; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S

TU; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

"This book was originally published as an issue of Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B; Biological sciences (volume 363; number 1496) but has been materially changed and updated"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612365935

9780191579134

0191579130

9780199570300

0199570302

9781282365933

1282365932

9780191568244

0191568244

OCLC:

475486710