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Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a Synthesis

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Leading researchers in evolutionary developmental biology seek linkages between, and a synthesis of, development, physiology, endocrinology, ecology, and evolution.Evolutionary developmental biology, also known as evo-devo or EDB, seeks to find links between development and evolution by opening the "black box" of development's role in evolution and in the evolution of developmental mechanisms. In particular, this volume emphasizes the roles of the environment and of hormonal signaling in evo-devo. It brings together a group of leading researchers to analyze the dynamic interaction of environmental factors with developmental and physiological processes and to examine how environmental signals are translated into phenotypic change, from the molecular and cellular level to organisms and groups of organisms. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate the crucial roles of those processes of genetic, developmental, physiological, and hormonal change that underpin evolutionary change in development, morphology, physiology, behavior, and life-history.Part I investigates links between environmental signals and developmental processes that could be preserved over evolutionary time. Several contributors evaluate the work of the late Ryuichi Matsuda, especially his emphasis on the role of the external environment in genetic change and variability ("pan-environmentalism"). Other contributors in part I analyze different aspects of environmental-genetic-evolutionary linkages, including the importance of alternate ontogenies in evolution and the paradox of stability over long periods of evolutionary time. Part II examines the plasticity that characterizes much of development, with contributors discussing such topics as gene regulatory networks and heterochronicity. Part III analyzes the role of hormones and metamorphosis in the evolution of such organisms with alternate life-history stages as lampreys, amphibians, and insects.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press., 2004

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1 online resource (xxiii, 304 pages) :illustrations.

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English

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9780262274753

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computer

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online resource

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Evolution (Biology)
Developmental biology.
Ecophysiology.

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Edited by Brian K. Hall, Roy D. Pearson, Gerd B. Müller

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Jemadi

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https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/2558/Environment-Development-and-EvolutionToward-a

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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/2775.001.0001

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