Old Questions and Young Approaches to Animal Evolution

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Martín-Durán, José M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vellutini, Bruno C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Fascinating Life Sciences,
• Subjects: Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Paleontology .; Evolutionary Biology.; Paleontology.

Animal evolution has always been at the core of Biology, but even today many fundamental questions remain open. The field of animal 'evo-devo' is leveraging recent technical and conceptual advances in development, paleontology, genomics and transcriptomics to propose radically different an...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. Animal Origins
• Chapter 1. 1. The protistan cellular and genomic roots of animal multicellularity
• Chapter 2. Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils in the genomic era
• Part 2. The developmental view of animal evolution
• Chapter 3. Comparative embryology as a way to understand evolution
• Chapter 4. How do developmental programs evolve?
• Chapter 5. How do morphological novelties evolve? Novel approaches to define novel morphologies
• Chapter 6. Germ layer evolution: using novel approaches to address a classic evolutionary embryological problem
• Chapter 7. Origin and evolution of nervous systems
• Part 3. The genomic view of animal evolution
• Chapter 8. Boosting macroevolution: genomic changes triggering qualitative expansions of regulatory potential
• Chapter 9. How do gene networks promote morphological evolution?
• Part 4. Theoretical approaches to animal evolution
• Chapter 10. How does modularity in the genotype-phenotype map shape development and evolution?
• Chapter 11. Can we compute the embryo?
• Chapter 12. What is a biological individual?.