Muscles of Chordates

Development, Homologies, and Evolution

Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann, Julia Molnar, Natalia Siomava, Virginia Abdala

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781138571235
• eBook ISBN: 9781351334938
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Veterinary Medicine

Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea squirts. This will be the first book to synthesize, summarize, and provide high-quality illustrations to show what is known of the configuration, development, homology, and evolution of the muscles of all major extant chordate groups. Muscles as different as those used to open the siphons of sea squirts and for human facial communication will be compared, and their evolutionary links will be explained. Another unique feature of the book is that it covers, illustrates, and provides detailed evolutionary tables for each and every muscle of the head, neck and of all paired and median appendages of extant vertebrates.

Key Selling Features:

• Has more than 200 high-quality anatomical illustrations, including evolutionary trees that summarize the origin and evolution of all major muscle groups of chordates
• Includes data on the muscles of the head and neck and on the pectoral, pelvic, anal, dorsal, and caudal appendages of all extant vertebrate taxa
• Examines experimental observations from evolutionary developmental biology studies of chordate muscle development, allowing to evolutionarily link the muscles of vertebrates with those of other chordates
• Discusses broader developmental and evolutionary issues and their implications for macroevolution, such as the links between phylogeny and ontogeny, homology and serial homology, normal and abnormal development, the evolution, variations, and birth defects of humans, and medicine.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Methodology
• Chapter 3 Non-Vertebrate Chordates and the Origin of the Muscles of Vertebrates
• Chapter 4 General Discussion on the Early Evolution of the Vertebrate Cephalic Muscles
• Chapter 5 Cephalic Muscles of Cyclostomes and Chondrichthyans
• Chapter 6 Cephalic Muscles of Actinopterygians and Basal Sarcopterygians
• Chapter 7 Development of Cephalic Muscles in Chondrichthyans and Bony Fishes
• Chapter 8 Head and Neck Muscle Evolution from Sarcopterygian Fishes to Tetrapods, with a Special Focus on Mammals
• Chapter 9 Head and Neck Muscles of Amphibians
• Chapter 10 Head and Neck Muscles of Reptiles
• Chapter 11 Development of Cephalic Muscles in Tetrapods
• Chapter 12 Pectoral and Pelvic Girdle and Fin Muscles of Chondrichthyans and Pectoral-Pelvic Nonserial Homology
• Chapter 13 Pectoral and Pelvic Muscles of Actinopterygian Fishes
• Chapter 14 Muscles of Median Fins and Origin of Pectoral vs. Pelvic and Paired vs. Median Fins
• Chapter 15 Development of Muscles of Paired and Median Fins in Fishes
• Chapter 16 Pectoral and Pelvic Appendicular Muscle Evolution from Sarcopterygian Fishes to Tetrapods
• Chapter 17 Forelimb Muscles of Tetrapods, Including Mammals
• Chapter 18 Forelimb Muscles of Limbed Amphibians and Reptiles
• Chapter 19 Hindlimb Muscles of Tetrapods and More Insights on Pectoral–Pelvic Nonserial Homology
• Chapter 20 Development of Limb Muscles in Tetrapods
• References
• Index