From DNA to diversity : molecular genetics and the evolution of animal design /
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| Author / Creator: | Carroll, Sean B. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005. |
| Description: | ix, 258 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5374341 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1. A Brief History of Animals
- Animal origins and the fossil record
- The animal tree
- General features of animal design and diversity
- Evolution and development: DNA and diversity
- Chapter 2. The Genetic Toolkit for Development
- Before the toolkit-organizers, fields, and morphogens
- The genetic toolkit
- Sharing of the genetic toolkit among animals
- The toolkit and animal design
- Chapter 3. Building Animals
- Gene regulation in metazoans
- The architecture of genetic regulatory hierarchies
- The insect body plan
- The vertebrate body plan
- Review: the general logic and mechanisms controlling gene expression in cellular fields
- Chapter 4. Evolution of the Toolkit
- The history of gene families
- Case study: evolution of the Hox complex
- Interpreting the toolkit: inferences about animal evolution
- The toolkit as developmental potential
- Chapter 5. Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts
- Diversity of anterior/posterior body organization within arthropods and vertebrates
- Morphological diversity within a conserved body plan
- Regulatory evolution and the diversification of homologous body parts
- Chapter 6. The Evolution of Morphological Novelties
- What is morphological novelty?
- Novel functions from older morphological structures
- The evolution of vertebrate novelties
- Evolution of radical body plan changes
- Regulatory evolution and the origin of novelties
- Chapter 7. Morphological Variation and Species Divergence
- Evolution of animal color patterns
- Nodal points in regulatory networks and the evolution of character number and pattern
- Qualitative and quantitative aspects of skeletal evolution in stickleback fish
- More variation than meets the eye: cryptic genetic variation and the potential for morphological evolution
- Regulatory evolution and species divergence
- Chapter 8. From DNA to Diversity: The Primacy of Regulatory Evolution
- Why is regulatory evolution a primary force in morphological evolution?
- The function and evolution of cis-regulatory DNA
- The evolution of regulatory DNA and morphological diversity
- Glossary
- Index
