Environment, development, and evolution : toward a synthesis / edited by Brian K. Hall, Roy Douglas Pearson, and Gerd B. Müller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Brian K. (Brian Keith), 1941-

Pearson, Roy Douglas.

Müller, Gerd (Gerd B.)

Series:

Vienna series in theoretical biology.

The Vienna series in theoretical biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental biology.

Evolution (Biology).

Ecophysiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 304 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leading researchers in evolutionary developmental biology seek linkages between, and a synthesis of, development, physiology, endocrinology, ecology, and evolution.Evolutionary developmental biology, also known as evo-devo or EDB, seeks to find links between development and evolution by opening the "black box" of development's role in evolution and in the evolution of developmental mechanisms. In particular, this volume emphasizes the roles of the environment and of hormonal signaling in evo-devo. It brings together a group of leading researchers to analyze the dynamic interaction of environmental factors with developmental and physiological processes and to examine how environmental signals are translated into phenotypic change, from the molecular and cellular level to organisms and groups of organisms. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate the crucial roles of those processes of genetic, developmental, physiological, and hormonal change that underpin evolutionary change in development, morphology, physiology, behavior, and life-history.Part I investigates links between environmental signals and developmental processes that could be preserved over evolutionary time. Several contributors evaluate the work of the late Ryuichi Matsuda, especially his emphasis on the role of the external environment in genetic change and variability ("pan-environmentalism"). Other contributors in part I analyze different aspects of environmental-genetic-evolutionary linkages, including the importance of alternate ontogenies in evolution and the paradox of stability over long periods of evolutionary time. Part II examines the plasticity that characterizes much of development, with contributors discussing such topics as gene regulatory networks and heterochronicity. Part III analyzes the role of hormones and metamorphosis in the evolution of such organisms with alternate life-history stages as lampreys, amphibians, and insects.

Contents:

Introduction : Evolution as the control of development by ecology / Brian K. Hall

Ryuichi Matsuda : his contributions to the integration of the environment, physiology, and evolution / Roy Douglas Pearson

Epigenetics and environment : the historical matrix of Matsuda's pan-environmentalism / R.G.B. Reid

Altenative ontogenies and evolution : a farewell to gradualism / Eugene K. Balon

The determined embryo : homeodynamics, hormones, and heredity / Roy Douglas Pearson

Ecology, development, and evolution : perspectives from the fossil record / Elisabeth S. Vrba

Ryuichi Matsuda : a tribute and a perspective on pan-environmentalism and genetic assimilation / Mary Jane West-Eberhard

A view of phenotypic plasticity from molecules to morphogenesis / Ellen W. Larsen

A framework for studying the evolution of gene networks underlying polyphenism : insights from winged and wingless ant castes / Ehab Abouheif

Conceptualizing heterochrony : it's time for change! or, which came first, the chicken or the egg? / Jonathon Stone

Environmental effects, embryonization, and the evolution of viviparity / Marvalee H. Wake

The origin of novel phenotypes : correlational selection, epistasis, and speciation / Barry Sinervo and Erik I. Svensson

Thyroid hormone-mediated development in vertebrates : what makes frogs unique / Christopher Stewart Rose

The impact of environmental and hormonal cues on the evolution of fish metamorphosis / John H. Youson

Evolutionary aspects of thyroid hormone effects in invertebrates / K.G. Davey.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-29386-2

0-262-27475-2

1-4237-3780-6

OCLC:

62329902