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

• 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&qu...

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