The Development of Animal Form - Ontogeny, Morphology, and Evolution

Klappentext Integrates traditional morphological and contemporary molecular genetic approaches to evolutionary developmental biology or 'evo-devo'. Zusammenfassung The Development of Animal Form integrates traditional morphology and contemporary molecular genetics while incorporating research on post-embryonic development. The result is unconventional views of basic animal organization. The book will interest graduate students and researchers of evolutionary and developmental biology! and scholars in cell biology! genetics and zoology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The nature of development; 2. Everything begun to the service of development: cellular Darwinism and the origin of animal form; 3. Development: generic to genetic; 4. Periodization; 5. Body regions, their boundaries and complexity; 6. Differentiation and patterning; 7. Size factors; 8. Axes and symmetries; 9. Segments; 10. Evo-devo perspectives on homology; Summary and conclusions; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Minelli Alessandro, Alessandro Minelli, Minelli Alessandro
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521025188
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02518-8
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology, Developmental biology