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The evolution of developmental mechanisms / edited by Michael Akam [and others]

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Other Authors: Akam, Michael
Other title:Development (Cambridge, England)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Company of Biologists, ©1994.
Series:Development (Cambridge, England). Supplement ; 1994.
Subjects:
Developmental biology.
Table of Contents:
  • Why molecular biology needs palaeontology / S. Conway Morris
  • Can the Cambrian explosion be inferred through molecular phylogeny? / H. Philippe, A. Chenuil, A. Adoutte
  • Protein families in the metazoan genome / C. Chothia
  • Domain organizations of extracellular matrix proteins and their evolution / J. Engel, V.P. Efimov, P. Maurer
  • Hedgehog gene family in Drosophila and vertebrate development / M.J. Fietz ... [et al.]
  • Growth factors in development: the role of TGF-β related polypeptide signalling molecules in embryogenesis / B.L.M. Hogan ... [et al.]
  • Class act: conservation of homeodomain protein functions / J.R. Manak, M.P. Scott
  • Evolutionary origin of development: cycles, patterning, privilege and continuity / L. Wolpert
  • Evolution of cell lineage in nematodes / R.J. Sommer, L.K. Carta, P.W. Sternberg
  • Evolution of echinoderm development is driven by several distinct factors / G.A. Wray, A.E. Bely
  • Evolution of flowers and inflorescences / E.S. Coen, J.M. Nugent
  • Evolution of vertebrate gastrulation / E.M. De Robertis ... [et al.]
  • Gene duplications and the origins of vertebrate development / P.W.H. Holland ... [et al.]
  • Temporal colinearity and the phylotypic progression: a basis for the stability of a vertebrate Bauplan and the evolution of morphologies through heterochrony / D. Duboule
  • Developmental expression of the mouse Evx-2 gene: relationship with the evolution of the HOM/Hox complex / P. Dollé, V. Fraulob, D. Duboule
  • Gene loss and gain in the evolution of the vertebrates / F.H. Ruddle ... [et al.]
  • Evolutionary developmental biology of the tetrapod limb / J.R. Hinchliffe
  • Origin of vertebrate limbs / M.I. Coates
  • Hox genes and growth: early and late roles in limb bud morphogenesis / B.A. Morgan, C. Tabin
  • Evolution of insect patterning mechanisms: a survey of progress and problems in comparative molecular embryology / K. Sander
  • Insect embryogenesis: what is ancestral and what is derived? / D. Tautz, M. Friedrich, R. Schröder
  • Evolution of arthropod segmentation: insights from comparisons of gene expression patterns / N.H. Patel.
  • Evolving role of Hox genes in arthropods / M. Akam ... [et al.]
  • Developmental regulatory mechanisms in the evolution of insect diversity / S.B. Carroll
  • Symmetry systems and compartments in Lepidopteran wings: the evolution of a patterning mechanism.

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