Fins into limbs : evolution, development, and transformation / / edited by Brian K. Hall.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hall, Brian Keith, 1941-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 433 p., [20] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.).

Table of Contents

Fins and limbs and fins into limbs : the historical context, 1840-1940 / Peter J. Bowler -- Skeletal changes in the transition from fins to limbs / Michael I. Coates and Marcello Ruta -- A historical perspective on the study of animal locomotion with fins and limbs / Eliot G. Drucker and Adam P. Summers -- Fins and limbs in the study of evolutionary novelties / Gunter P. Wagner and Hans C. E. Larsson -- The development of fins and limbs / Mikiko Tanaka and Cheryl Tickle -- Mechanisms of chondrogenesis and osteogenesis in fins / P. Eckhard Witten and Ann Huysseune -- Mechanisms of Chondrogenesis and osteogenesis in limbs / Scott D. Weatherbee and Lee A. Niswander -- Apoptosis in fin and limb development / Vanessa Zuzarte-Luis and Juan M. Hurle -- Joint formation / Charles W. Archer, Gary P. Dowthwaite, and Philippa Francis-West -- Postnatal growth of fins and limbs through endochondral ossification / Cornelia E. Farnum -- Paired fin repair and regeneration / Marie-Andree Akimenko and Amanda Smith -- Tetrapod limb regeneration / David M. Gardiner and Susan V. Bryant -- Evolution of the appendicular skeleton of amphibians / Robert L. Carroll and Robert B. Holmes -- Limb diversity and digit reduction in reptilian evolution / Michael D. Shapiro, Neil H. Shubin, and Jason P. Downs -- Limbs in mammalian evolution / P. David Polly -- Skeletal adaptations for flight / Stephen M. Gatesy and Kevin M. Middleton -- Adaptations for digging and burrowing / Nathan J. Kley and Maureen Kearney -- Aquatic adaptations in the limbs of amniotes / J. G. M. Thewissen and Michael A. Taylor -- Sesamoids and ossicles in the appendicular skeleton / Matthew K. Vickaryous and Wendy M. Olson