Alessandro Minelli

The Development of Animal Form

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Development of Animal Form integrates traditional morphological and contemporary molecular genetic approaches to evolutionary developmental biology or 'evo-devo'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780521808514
• ISBN-10: 0521808510
• Artikelnr.: 33384458

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The nature of development
2. Everything begun to the service of development: cellular Darwinism and the origin of animal form
3. Development: generic to genetic
4. Periodization
5. Body regions, their boundaries and complexity
6. Differentiation and patterning
7. Size factors
8. Axes and symmetries
9. Segments
10. Evo-devo perspectives on homology
Summary and conclusions
References
Index.