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Unter Homologie versteht der Biologe die Abstammung von denselben evolutionären Wurzeln. Sowohl die Grundbegriffe als auch die Kriterien zur Feststellung der Homologie werden in Fachkreisen teils kontrovers diskutiert; dieses Buch versucht, alle Facetten des Themengebietes zu beleuchten. Aufgenommen wurden Beiträge zur historischen Entwicklung der Begriffe, zu Populationsstudien, morphologischen und Verhaltensuntersuchungen sowie Experimenten auf molekulargenetischer Ebene. (03/99)
List of contents
From the contents:
Homology-History of a Concept (A. Panchen).
Homoplasy, Homology and the Problem of 'Sameness' in Biology (D. Wake).
Homology Among Divergent Paleozoic Tetrapod Clades (R. Carroll).
Generation, Integration, Autonomy: Three Steps in the Evolution of Homology (G. Müller & S. Newman).
On the Homology of Structures and Hox Genes: The Vertebral Column (F. Galis).
Developmental Basis of Limb Homology in Urodeles: Heterochronic Evidence from the Primitive Hynobiid Family (J. Hinchliffe & E. Vorobyeva).
Larval Homologies and Radical Evolutionary Changes in Early Development (R. Raff).
A Research Programme for Testing the Biological Homology Concept (G. Wagner).
Homology and Homoplasy: The Retention of Genetic Programmes (A. Meyer).
Homology in the Nervous System: Of Characters, Embryology and Levels of Analysis (G. Striedter).
Natural History and Behavioural Homology (H. Greene).
Evolutionary Dissociations Between Homologous Genes and Homologous St ructures (G. Wray).
Establishing Homology Criteria for Regulatory Gene Networks: Prospects and Challenges (E. Abouheif).
The Effect of Gene Duplication on Homology (P. Holland).
Summary (B. Hall).
Indexes.
