Key Transitions in Animal Evolution
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Key Transitions in Animal Evolution

  1. 446 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Key Transitions in Animal Evolution

About this book

Addressing the evolution of key innovations in metazoans, this challenging book summarizes the more recent results in phylogenetics and developmental biology. Divided into three sections, the first considers the phylogenetic issues involving this area of the tree of life and the elucidation of those relationships that continue to trouble taxonomists. The second section considers the developmental biology of metazoan evolution including the development of the nervous system, sensory organs, and physiological maturation. Part three focuses on the evolution of pattern and process in the Metazoa.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781578086955
eBook ISBN
9781439854020
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Introduction
  3. Contents
  4. Section 1. Tangled Roots in the Animal Tree of Life
  5. Chapter 1. Putting Animals in their Place within a Context of Eukaryotic Innovations
  6. Chapter 2. Elucidating Animal Phylogeny: Advances in Knowledge and Forthcoming Challenges
  7. Chapter 3. Key Transitions in Animal Evolution: a Mitochondrial DNA Perspective
  8. Chapter 4. Pending Issues in Development and Phylogeny of Arthropods
  9. Chapter 5. The Pre-Nervous System and Beyond—Poriferan Milestones in the Early Evolution of the Metazoan Nervous System*
  10. Chapter 6. A Key Innovation in Animal Evolution, the Emergence of Neurogenesis: Cellular and Molecular Cues from Cnidarian Nervous Systems
  11. Chapter 7. From Cnidaria to “Higher Metazoa” in One Step
  12. Chapter 8. Basal Metazoan Sensory Evolution
  13. Chapter 9. Cnidarian Gene Expression Patterns and the Origins of Bilaterality—Are Cnidarians Reading the same Game Plan as “Higher” Animals?
  14. Chapter 10. Key Transitions During Animal Phototransduction Evolution: Co-duplication as a Null Hypothesis for the Evolutionary Origins of Novel Traits
  15. Chapter 11. Vertebrate Hox Genes and Specializations in Mammals
  16. Chapter 12. Field Biology of Placozoans (Trichoplax): Distribution, Diversity, Biotic Interactions
  17. Chapter 13. Trichoplax and Placozoa: One of the Crucial Keys to Understanding Metazoan Evolution
  18. Chapter 14. A Food’s-Eye View of Animal Transitions
  19. Chapter 15. Lost in Transition: The Biogeochemical Context of Animal Origins
  20. Chapter 16. Redefi ning Stem Cells and Assembling Germ Plasm: Key Transitions in the Evolution of the Germ Line
  21. Questions and Discussion
  22. Back Cover