Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- 1st Edition, Volume 141 - February 12, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Scott Gilbert
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 9 6 8 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 9 6 9 - 0
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Request a sales quoteEvolutionary Developmental Biology, Volume 141 focuses on recent research in evolutionary developmental biology, the science studying how changes in development cause the variations that natural selection operate on. Several new hypotheses and models are presented in this volume, and these concern how homology may be properly delineated, how neural crest and placode cells emerged and how they formed the skull and jaw, and how plasticity and developmental symbiosis enable normal development to be regulated by environmental factors.
- New models for homology
- New hypotheses for the generation of chordates
- New models for the roles of plasticity and symbionts in normal development
Sstudents, teachers, and researchers in the fields of developmental biology, evolution, or evolutionary developmental biology. People who have some background in at least one of these areas and who wish to expand their knowledge of how animal developmental history and evolutionary history interact
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- I: Fulfilling the prophecy
- II: A book of changes
- III: A personal reflection
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: A developmental perspective of homology and evolutionary novelty
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction to the concepts of homology and evolutionary novelty
- 2: Part 1: The concept of likeness in biology
- 3: Part 2. Developmental and genetic determinants of likeness
- 4: Part 3. Evolving away from likeness
- 5: Conclusions and future research avenues
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Two: Modularity and hierarchy in biological systems: Using gene regulatory networks to understand evolutionary change
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Echinoderm development illustrates modularity and hierarchy at many levels
- 3: Modularity, evolution, and homology
- 4: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Three: Molecular insights into deuterostome evolution from hemichordate developmental biology
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The animals
- 3: Body plan and key anatomical features
- 4: Life history strategies of species used for developmental studies
- 5: Developmental contributions to testing hypotheses of morphological homology
- 6: Pharyngeal gill slits
- 7: Nerve cords and stomochord
- 8: Insights from comparative axial patterning
- 9: Anteroposterior patterning
- 10: Origin of CNS signaling centers
- 11: Early establishment of A/P pattern
- 12: Dorsoventral patterning
- 13: Endomesoderm specification
- 14: Mesoderm specification
- 15: Life history considerations
- 16: Summary and future directions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Four: Cephalochordates: A window into vertebrate origins
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The debate on vertebrate origins
- 3: The dawn of evodevo
- 4: How did the vertebrate brain evolve from that of an amphioxus-like ancestor?
- 5: The origins of neural crest and placodes
- 6: The head-segmentation conundrum
- 7: Conclusions
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter Five: Transitional chordates and vertebrate origins: Tunicates
- Abstract
- 1: Deuterostome phylogeny and chordate origins
- 2: Hemichordate development and evolution
- 3: Tunicate development and evolution
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Six: Evolution of new cell types at the lateral neural border
- Abstract
- 1: The lateral neural border in bilaterians
- 2: The vertebrate neural plate border—Neural crest and cranial placodes
- 3: Neural crest- and placode-like cells in non-vertebrate chordates
- 4: The lateral neural border domain in non-chordate deuterostomes
- 5: The lateral neural border in protostomes
- 6: Cell type evolution in the lateral neural border region
- Chapter Seven: Evo-devo studies of cyclostomes and the origin and evolution of jawed vertebrates
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction—Cyclostomes, agnathans, and gnathostomes
- 2: Anatomy of cyclostomes
- 3: Mandibular arch
- 4: Evolution of the jaw
- 5: Development of the hagfish
- 6: Perspectives
- Chapter Eight: Heading for higher ground: Developmental origins and evolutionary diversification of the amniote face
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Major trends in amniote evolution
- 3: The face as a module of the amniote head
- 4: Developmental origins of the face
- 5: Molecular patterning of cranial morphogenesis
- 6: Developmental origins of facial diversity
- 7: Model for amniote facial developmental evolution
- 8: Conclusions
- Chapter Nine: The origin of wing polyphenism in ants: An eco-evo-devo perspective
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Hymenopteran clues for the origin of wing polyphenism in the Formicidae
- 3: Ant fossils provide evidence that wing polyphenism and eusociality in ants arose together during the Early Cretaceous
- 4: The implications of originating first: Wing polyphenism versus eusociality
- 5: A model for the molecular and developmental mechanisms regulating wing polyphenism in basal ant lineages
- 6: Origin of wing polyphenism via genetic accommodation
- 7: The origin of wing polyphenism enabled subsequent morphological diversification in ants
- 8: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Ten: Genetic assimilation and accommodation: Models and mechanisms
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Genetic assimilation since Waddington
- 3: The role of phenotypic plasticity
- 4: Plasticity, the Baldwin effect and genetic accommodation
- 5: Models and mechanisms for the evolution of assimilation, canalization and accommodation
- 6: Developmental models
- 7: Signaling pathways
- 8: Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Eleven: Animal development in the microbial world: The power of experimental model systems
- Abstract
- 1: Models systems as a strategy for understanding conserved features of complex processes like development
- 2: Hydra: A model for host-microbe interactions—And a window into early animal life
- 3: The binary light organ squid-vibrio model sheds light on basic mechanisms of symbiosis development
- 4: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Twelve: Animal development in the microbial world: Re-thinking the conceptual framework
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The development of multicellularity across all domains
- 3: Evolution of development in animals
- 4: The influence of microbes on development through ontogeny
- 5: Conclusions, opportunities and future perspectives: A paradigm shift and a new way of exploring development
- Acknowledgments
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 141
- Published: February 12, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 452
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128149683
- eBook ISBN: 9780128149690
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Scott Gilbert
Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology (emeritus) at Swarthmore College, where he has taught developmental genetics, embryology, and the history and critiques of biology. He is also a Finland Distinguished Professor (emeritus) at the University of Helsinki. He received his B.A. in both biology and religion from Wesleyan University (1971), and he earned his PhD in biology from the Johns Hopkins University (1976). His M.A. in the history of science, is also from The Johns Hopkins University. He pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin in both molecular biology and developmental immunology. Scott is married to Anne M. Raunio, an obstetrician-gynecologist, and they have three children.
Scott’s biological research has two foci. The first concerns how changes in developmental mechanisms can generate evolutionary novelty. Studying “the arrival of the fittest,” he literally investigates how the turtle gets its shell. The second focus concerns the integration of symbionts into a holobiont, and how the symbiotic microbes and host cells facilitate and scaffold each other’s development, truly “becoming with the other.” Scott has received several awards for his work in evolutionary developmental biology, including the Medal of François I from the Collège de France, the Kowalevsky Prize in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, the Viktor Hamburger Award for developmental biology education, and the Service Award from the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. He has been awarded honorary degrees from the University of Helsinki and the University of Tartu.
Scott currently has three co-authored books in print: (1) Developmental Biology, now in its twelfth edition) which is one of the most widely used textbook in the field; (2) Ecological Developmental Biology, which is attempting to help construct a new area of biological science by bringing together aspects of embryology, medical physiology, ecology, and evolution; and (3) Fear, Wonder, and Science in the Age of Reproductive Biotechnology, a science trade-book concerning both the scientific and emotional aspects of reproductive biotechnology.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Associate, Howard A. Schneiderman Professor Emeritus, Developmental Biology, Swarthmore College, PA, USARead Evolutionary Developmental Biology on ScienceDirect