The development of animal form : ontogeny, morphology, and evolution

The development of animal form : ontogeny, morphology, and evolution / Alessandro Minelli.

The Development of Animal Form integrates traditional morphology and contemporary molecular genetics while incorporating research on postembryonic development. The result is unconventional views of basic animal organization. The book will interest graduate students and researchers of evolutionary an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Minelli, Alessandro
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Developmental biology.
Ontogeny.
Morphology.
Evolution (Biology)
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Anatomy & Physiology.
Developmental biology
Morphology
Ontogeny
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Nature of Development
  • Everything begun to the service of development: cellular Darwinism and the origin of animal form
  • Development: generic to genetic
  • Periodization
  • Body regions, their boundaries and complexity
  • Differentiation and patterning
  • Size factors
  • Axes and symmetries
  • Segments
  • Evo-devo perspectives on homology.

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