Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology / / ed. by Brian K. Hall, Wendy M. Olson.

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• MitwirkendeR: Alvarado, Alejandro Sánchez,; Arthur, Wallace,; Bolker, Jessica A.,; Bonner, John Tyler,; Brakefield, Paul M.,; Brown, Susan,; Budd, Graham E.,; Burian, Richard M.,; Burke, Anne C.,; Carlson, Bruce M.,; Collazo, Andres,; De Ricqlès, Armand,; Galis, Frietson,; Gass, Gillian L.,; Gerhart, John,; Gilbert, Scott F.,; Gottlieb, Gilbert,; Guralnick, Robert P.,; Hall, Brian K.,; Hallgrímsson, Benedikt,; Hanken, James,; Hart, Michael,; Herring, Susan W.,; Jernvall, Jukka,; Jockusch, Elizabeth L.,; King, Mary Lou,; Kirschner, Marc,; Knapp, Loren,; Laubichler, Manfred D.,; Lindberg, David R.,; Ma, Hong,; Maclean, Norman,; Mishler, Brent,; Müller, Gerd B.,; Newman, Stuart A.,; Niklas, Karl J.,; Olson, Wendy M.,; Olsson, Lennart,; Padian, Kevin,; Panganiban, Grace,; Reiss, John O.,; Richtsmeier, Joan T.,; Robert, Jason Scott,; Sachs, Tsvi,; Sapp, Jan,; Sawyer, Roger,; Schlichting, Carl D.,; Schwenk, Kurt,; Sinervo, Barry,; Slack, Jonathan M. W.,; Stern, David,; Stiassny, Melanie L. J.,; Summers, Adam P.,; Valentine, James W.,; Wagner, Günter P.,; Wake, David B.,; Wake, Marvalee H.,; Weiss, Kenneth M.,; Wijngaarden, Pieter J.,; Wilkins, Adam,; Zelditch, Miriam,
• HerausgeberIn: Hall, Brian K.,; Olson, Wendy M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)

The new field of evolutionary developmental biology is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary biology. The fundamental principle of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") is that evolution acts through inherited changes in the development of the organism. "Evo-devo" is not merely a fusion of the fields of developmental and evolutionary biology, the grafting of a developmental perspective onto evolutionary biology, or the incorporation of an evolutionary perspective into developmental biology. Evo-devo strives for a unification of genomic, developmental, organismal, population, and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change. It draws from development, evolution, paleontology, ecology, and molecular and systematic biology, but has its own set of questions, approaches, and methods. Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first comprehensive reference work for this expanding field. Covering more than fifty central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts, Keywords offers an overview of all that is embraced by this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Evolutionary Developmental Mechanisms -- Animal Phyla -- Atavism -- Behavioral Development and Evolution -- Canalization and Genetic Assimilation -- Cell Determination and Differentiation -- Cell Types, Numbers, and Body Plan Complexity -- Conserved Early Embryonic Stages -- Constraint -- Development, Evolution, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- Developmental Genetics -- Developmental Mechanisms: Animal -- Developmental Processes That Generate Plant Form -- Developmental Systems Theory -- Direct Development -- Embryonic Induction -- Environment -- Epigenesis and Epigenetics -- Evolution of Plant Body Plans and Allometry -- Evolvability -- Fossils and Paleobiology -- Gene Regulation -- Genome Size -- Germ Cells and Germ Plasm -- Growth -- Hierarchy -- Homeotic Genes in Animals -- Homeotic Genes in Flowering Plants -- Homology and Homoplasy -- Inheritance: Extragenomic -- Inheritance: Genomic -- Innovation -- Larvae and Larval Evolution -- Life History Evolution -- Lineages: Cell and Phyletic -- Micro-, Macro-, and Megaevolution -- Modularity -- Morphology -- Ontogenetic Integration of Form and Function -- Phenotype and Genotype -- Phenotypic Plasticity -- Phylogeny -- Phylotype and Zootype -- Regeneration in the Metazoa -- Segmentation -- Selection: Units and Levels in Developing Systems -- Space, Time, and Repatterning -- Speciation -- Time -- Variation -- References -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index