Screen LibraryTinkering the microevolution of development.
This book addresses one of the hottest topics in modern biology: the molecular genetic changes that drive evolution. Part of the prestigious Novartis Foundation series, this volume provides an excellent description of the microevolutionary changes known as tinkering. It explores both theoretical and...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470319390 |
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This book addresses one of the hottest topics in modern biology: the molecular genetic changes that drive evolution. Part of the prestigious Novartis Foundation series, this volume provides an excellent description of the microevolutionary changes known as tinkering. It explores both theoretical and practical issues regarding small-scale evolutionary development. The book features contributions from a broad range of viewpoints and addresses fundamental questions to do with evolution. How does tinkering occur developmentally and how is it manifested phenotypically? Are the developmental mechanisms by which tinkering occurs different from those that underlie larger evolutionary changes? What are the developmental constraints on tinkering? And how do we test hypotheses about micro-evolutionary shifts in development from the fossil record? Tinkering: The Microevolution of Development 160;examines in detail the mechanisms by which evolution occurs, looks at the role of tinkering in speciation, and asks how we can gain information about microevolution from the fossil record. This fascinating book is exciting reading for anyone working in the area of evolution, developmental biology, palaeontology, zoology or genetics. |
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Proceedings of the Symposium on Tinkering, held at the Novartis Foundation, London, July 11-13, 2006. Editors: Gregory Bock and Jamie Goode. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (ix, 289 p.) : ill. (some col.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780470319406 (electronic bk.) 0470319402 (electronic bk.) 9780470319390 0470319399 1280900822 9781280900822 |
| Index Number: | QH442 |
| CLC: | Q7 |
| Contents: | The evolutionary developmental biology of tinkering : an introduction to the challenge / Daniel E. Lieberman and Brian K. Hall -- Tinkering : a conceptual and historical evaluation / Manfred D. Laubichler -- Tinkering : new embryos from old, rapidly and cheaply / Rudolf A. Raff and Elizabeth C. Raff -- The relationship between development and evolution through heritable variation / James M. Cheverud -- Genetic networks as transmitting and amplifying devices for natural genetic tinkering / Adam S. Wilkins -- Butterfly eyespot patterns and how evolutionary tinkering yields diversity / Paul M. Brakefield -- Tinkering with transcription factor proteins : the role of transcription factor adaptation in developmental evolution / Günter P. Wagner and Anna Marie Pyle -- Tinkering with constraints in the evolution of the vertebrate limb anterior-posterior polarity / Denis Duboule, Basile Tarchini, Jozsef Zàkàny and Marie Kmita -- Affecting tooth morphology and renewal by fine-tuning the signals mediating cell and tissue interactions / Irma Thesleff, Elina Järvinen and Marika Suomalainen -- Evolution of covariance in the mammalian skull / Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Daniel E. Lieberman, Nathan M. Young, Trish Parsons and Steven Wat -- The developmental genetics of microevolution / David L. Stern -- The economy of tinkering mammalian teeth / Jukka Jernvall and Isaac Salazar-Ciudad -- Pelvic skeleton reduction and Pitx1 expression in threespine stickleback populations / Michael A. Bell, Kaitlyn E. Ellis and Howard I. Sirotkin -- Using patterns of fin and limb phylogeny to test developmental-evolutionary scenarios / Michael I. Coates, Marcello Ruta and Peter J. Wagner -- Craniofacial variation and developmental divergence in primate and human evolution / Rebecca R. Ackermann. |