Ebook: Evolutionary Biology

This volume is the twenty-ninth in this series, which includes twenty-eight numbered volumes and one unnumbered supplement. The editors continue to focus on critical reviews, commentaries, original papers, and controversies in of the reviews range from anthropology to evolutionary biology. The topics molecular evolution, population biology to paleobiology. Recent volumes have included a broad spectrum of chapters on such subjects as population biology, comparative morphology, paleobiology, molecular phy­ logenetics, developmental evolutionary biology, systematics, and the history of evolutionary biology. The editors continue to solicit manuscripts in all areas of evolutionary biology. Manuscripts should be sent to anyone of the following: Max K. Hecht, Department of Biology, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367; Ross 1. MacIntyre, Department of Genetics and Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; or Michael T. Clegg, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521. vii Contents 1. Homology and Embryonic Development Brian K. Hall Introduction .............................................. 1 A Brief History of the Concept of Homology ................. 1 von Baer's Laws ........................................ 4 Germ Layers and Ernst Haeckel ............................ 6 Embryology and Homology ............................... 7 Homology: An Unsolved Problem ............................ 8 Latent Homology ........................................ 8 Serial Homology ........................................ 9 Common Origins and Common Inductions ..................... 12 Mechanisms of Gastrulation ............................... 13 Origin of the Alimentary Canal ............................ 14 Origin of Germ Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . . . Induction of Meckel's Cartilage ............................ 15 Induction of the Lens of the Eye ........................... 16 Development of Internal and External Cheek Pouches .......... 18 Selection for Increased Tail Length in Mice .................. 19 Regeneration and Homology .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 . . . . . . .

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Homology and Embryonic Development; B.K. Hall The Evolution of Paired Fins and the Origin and Tetrapod Limbs: Phylogenetic and Transformational Approaches; N. Shubin Drosphila Molecular Phylogenies and Their Uses; J.R. Powell, R. DeSalle Plant Molecular Systematics: Inferences of Phylogeny and Evolutionary Processes; P.S. Soltis, D.E. Soltis The Impact of Historical Contingency on Gene Phylogeny: Plant Actin Diversity; R.B. Meagher Evolution as a Lottery Conflicting with Evolution via Sexual Selection in African Rainforest dwelling Killifishes Cyprinodontidae, Rivulinae, Diapteron; A. Brosset, D. Lachaise Index.

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Homology and Embryonic Development; B.K. Hall The Evolution of Paired Fins and the Origin and Tetrapod Limbs: Phylogenetic and Transformational Approaches; N. Shubin Drosphila Molecular Phylogenies and Their Uses; J.R. Powell, R. DeSalle Plant Molecular Systematics: Inferences of Phylogeny and Evolutionary Processes; P.S. Soltis, D.E. Soltis The Impact of Historical Contingency on Gene Phylogeny: Plant Actin Diversity; R.B. Meagher Evolution as a Lottery Conflicting with Evolution via Sexual Selection in African Rainforest dwelling Killifishes Cyprinodontidae, Rivulinae, Diapteron; A. Brosset, D. Lachaise Index.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Homology and Embryonic Development....Pages 1-37
The Evolution of Paired Fins and the Origin of Tetrapod Limbs....Pages 39-86
Drosophila Molecular Phylogenies and Their Uses....Pages 87-138
Plant Molecular Systematics....Pages 139-194
The Impact of Historical Contingency on Gene Phylogeny....Pages 195-215
Evolution as a Lottery Conflicting with Evolution via Sexual Selection in African Rain Forest—Dwelling Killifishes (Cyprinodontidae, Rivulinae, Diapteron)....Pages 217-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-274

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Homology and Embryonic Development; B.K. Hall The Evolution of Paired Fins and the Origin and Tetrapod Limbs: Phylogenetic and Transformational Approaches; N. Shubin Drosphila Molecular Phylogenies and Their Uses; J.R. Powell, R. DeSalle Plant Molecular Systematics: Inferences of Phylogeny and Evolutionary Processes; P.S. Soltis, D.E. Soltis The Impact of Historical Contingency on Gene Phylogeny: Plant Actin Diversity; R.B. Meagher Evolution as a Lottery Conflicting with Evolution via Sexual Selection in African Rainforest dwelling Killifishes Cyprinodontidae, Rivulinae, Diapteron; A. Brosset, D. Lachaise Index.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Homology and Embryonic Development....Pages 1-37
The Evolution of Paired Fins and the Origin of Tetrapod Limbs....Pages 39-86
Drosophila Molecular Phylogenies and Their Uses....Pages 87-138
Plant Molecular Systematics....Pages 139-194
The Impact of Historical Contingency on Gene Phylogeny....Pages 195-215
Evolution as a Lottery Conflicting with Evolution via Sexual Selection in African Rain Forest—Dwelling Killifishes (Cyprinodontidae, Rivulinae, Diapteron)....Pages 217-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-274
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