Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Page ID
- 19617
Evolutionary developmental biology is a field of biological research that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to infer the ancestral relationships between them and how developmental processes evolved.
- Book: Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Rivera)
- The fields of Development and Evolution cannot be truly separated. When we study Developmental Biology we are mostly looking at a fine-tuned mechanical and genetic process that has been selected on for eons. Not only can evolution select on the final product - a working, fertile adult - but also can act at each developmental stage. It is easy to see how evolution acts through natural selection on adults, but how can it act on development itself?
- Front Matter
- 1: Introduction to Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EvoDevo)
- 2: Fertilization and Cortical Rotation
- 3: Cleavage and Gastrulation
- 4: Genetic Toolkit
- 5: Regionalization and Organizers
- 6: Genetic Basis of Complexity
- 7: Patterning
- 8: Novelty
- 9: Evolvability and Plasticity
- 10: Case Studies
- Mini-Labs
- Back Matter
- Book: Phylogenetic Comparative Methods (Harmon)
- Evolution is happening all around us. In many cases – lately, due to technological advances in molecular biology – scientists can now describe the evolutionary process in exquisite detail. We understand the genetics, development, and biomechanical processes that link changes in a Galapagos finches’ diet to the shape of their bill. And, in some cases, we can watch as one species splits to become two.
- Front Matter
- 1: A Macroevolutionary Research Program
- 2: Fitting Statistical Models to Data
- 3: Introduction to Brownian Motion
- 4: Fitting Brownian Motion
- 5: Multivariate Brownian Motion
- 6: Beyond Brownian Motion
- 7: Models of Discrete Character Evolution
- 8: Fitting Models of Discrete Character Evolution
- 9: Beyond the Mk Model
- 10: Introduction to Birth-Death Models
- 11: Fitting Birth-Death Models
- 12: Beyond Birth-Death models
- 13: Characters and Diversification Rates
- 14: What have we learned from the trees?
- Back Matter
- Key to the Diversity and History of Life (Shipunov)
- This book is for any biology student who wants to know the subject better. This text concentrates on the history of life, diversity of plants, protists and animals, and some other general aspects including elements of biogeography.
Thumbnail: "Views of a Fetus in the Womb", Leonardo da Vinci, ca. 1510-1512. The subject of prenatal development is a major subset of developmental biology.