Evolving pathways key themes in evolutionary developmental biology

444 Pages·2008·6.621 MB·English

by  Minelli A., Fusco G. (eds.)

Evolving Pathways Key Themes in Evolutionary
Developmental Biology
Evolutionarydevelopmentalbiology,or‘evo-devo’,isthestudyofthe
relationshipbetweenevolutionanddevelopment.Dealingspecifically
withthegenerativemechanismsoforganismalform,evo-devogoes
straighttothecoreofthedevelopmentaloriginofvariation,theraw
materialonwhichnaturalselection(andrandomdrift)canwork.
EvolvingPathwaysrespondstothegrowing volumeofdatainthisfield,
withitspotentialtoanswerfundamentalquestionsinbiology,by
fuellingdebatethroughcontributionsthatrepresentadiversityof
approaches.Topicsrangefromdevelopmentalgeneticstocomparative
morphologyofanimalsandplantsalike,includingpalaeontology.
Researchersandgraduatestudentswillfindthisbookavaluable
overviewofcurrentresearchaswebegintofillamajorgapinour
perceptionofevolutionarychange.
ALESSANDROMINELLIiscurrentlyProfessorofZoologyatthe
UniversityofPadova,Italy.AnhonoraryfellowoftheRoyal
EntomologicalSociety,hewasafoundingmemberandvice-president
oftheEuropeanSocietyforEvolutionaryBiology.Hehasservedas
presidentoftheInternationalCommissiononZoologicalNomenclature,
andisontheeditorialboardofmultiplelearnedjournals,including
Evolution&Development.HeistheauthorofTheDevelopmentofAnimal
Form(2003).
GIUSEPPEFUSCOisAssistantProfessorofZoologyattheUniversityof
Padova,Italy,whereheteachesEvolutionaryBiology.Hismain
researchworkisinthemorphologicalevolutionandpost-embryonic
developmentofarthropods,withparticularreferencetotheroleof
segmentationintheChilopoda.

Evolving
Pathways Key
Themes in
Evolutionary
Developmental
Biology
Edited by
ALESSANDRO MINELLI
GIUSEPPE FUSCO
University ofPadova, Italy
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Contents
Contributors page ix
Preface xiii
Introduction:Pathwaysofchange xv
PartI 1
Thinkingaboutevolutionbytakingdevelopmentonboard
1 Evo-devoasadiscipline 5
GERD B. MÜLLER
2 Makingevolutionarypredictionsaboutthestructureof
developmentandmorphology:beyondtheneo-Darwinian
andconstraintsparadigms 31
ISAAC SALAZAR-CIUDAD
3 Conflictinghypothesesonthenatureofmega-evolution 50
WALLACE ARTHUR
4 Prospectsofevo-devoforlinkingpatternandprocessinthe
evolutionofmorphospace 62
PAUL M. BRAKEFIELD
5 Themolecularbiologyunderlyingdevelopmentalevolution 80
CLAUDIO R. ALONSO
6 Evo-devo’sidentity:frommodelorganismsto
developmentaltypes 100
RONALD A. JENNER
v
vi Contents
PartII 121
Evo-devo:methodsandmaterials
7 Apragmaticapproachforselectingevo-devomodelspecies
inamniotes 123
ATHANASIA C. TZIKA AND MICHEL C. MILINKOVITCH
8 Oncomparisonsandcausesinevolutionarydevelopmental
biology 144
GERHARD SCHOLTZ
9 Evolutionanddevelopment:towardsasynthesisof
macro-andmicro-evolutionwithecology 160
HANS ZAUNER AND RALF J. SOMMER
10 WhenisaHoxgenenotaHoxgene?Theimportance
ofgenenomenclature 175
DAVID E. K. FERRIER
11 Plantsareusedtohavingidentitycrises 194
ROLF RUTISHAUSER, VALENTIN GROB AND EVELIN PFEIFER
PartIII 215
Evolvingdiversity
12 UnravellingbodyplanandaxialevolutionintheBilateria
withmolecularphylogeneticmarkers 217
JAUME BAGUñà, PERE MARTINEZ, JORDI PAPS AND
MARTA RIUTORT
13 Aretranspositioneventsattheoriginofthebilaterian
Hoxcomplexes? 239
JEAN S. DEUTSCH AND PHILIPPE LOPEZ
14 ManyroadsleadtoRome:differentwaystoconstructa
nematode 261
EINHARD SCHIERENBERG AND JENS SCHULZE
15 Basaleuarthropoddevelopment:afossil-basedperspective 281
NIGEL C. HUGHES, JOACHIM T. HAUG AND DIETER WALOSZEK
16 Developmentaltransitionsduringtheevolutionofplant
form 299
JANE A. LANGDALE AND C. JILL HARRISON
Contents vii
PartIV 317
Evolvingbodyfeatures
17 Urbisexuality:theevolutionofbilateriangermcell
specificationandreproductivesystems 321
CASSANDRA G. M. EXTAVOUR
18 Thoughtsandspeculationsontheancestralarthropod
segmentationpathway 343
ARIEL D. CHIPMAN
19 Evolutionofneurogenesisinarthropods 359
ANGELIKA STOLLEWERK
20 Arthropodappendages:aprimeexamplefortheevolution
ofmorphologicaldiversityandinnovation 381
NIKOLA-MICHAEL PRPIC AND WIM G.M. DAMEN
21 Ontogenyofthespiralianbrain 399
CLAUS NIELSEN
Index 417

Contributors
ClaudioR.Alonso
UniversityofCambridge,DepartmentofZoology,Cambridge,
UnitedKingdom
WallaceArthur
NationalUniversityofIrelandatGalway,DepartmentofZoology,
Galway,Ireland
JaumeBaguñà
UniversitatdeBarcelona,FacultatdeBiologia,Departamentde
Genètica,Barcelona,Spain
PaulM.Brakefield
LeidenUniversity,InstituteofBiology,Leiden,TheNetherlands
ArielD.Chipman
TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem,DepartmentofEvolution
SystematicsandEcology,Jerusalem,Israel
WimG.M.Damen
UniversitätzuKöln,InstitutfürGenetik,Köln,Germany
JeanS.Deutsch
UniversitéPierreetMarieCurie(Paris6),Biologiedu
DéveloppementandCNRS,Paris,France
CassandraG.M.Extavour
HarvardUniversity,DepartmentofOrganismicandEvolutionary
Biology,Cambridge,Massachusetts,UnitedStatesofAmerica
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x Contributors
DavidE.K.Ferrier
UniversityofStAndrews,TheGattyMarineLaboratory,
StAndrews,Scotland,UnitedKingdom
ValentinGrob
UniversitätZürich,InstitutfürSystematischeBotanikundBota-
nischerGarten,Zürich,Switzerland
C.JillHarrison
UniversityofOxford,DepartmentofPlantSciences,Oxford,
UnitedKingdom
JoachimT.Haug
UniversitätUlm,SektionBiosystematischeDokumentation,Ulm,
Germany
NigelC.Hughes
UniversityofCaliforniaRiverside,DepartmentofEarthSciences,
Riverside,California,UnitedStatesofAmerica
RonaldA.Jenner
UniversityofBath,DepartmentofBiologyandBiochemistry,Bath,
UnitedKingdom
JaneA.Langdale
UniversityofOxford,DepartmentofPlantSciences,Oxford,
UnitedKingdom
PhilippeLopez
UniversitéPierreetMarieCurie(Paris6),SystématiqueAdaptation
ÉvolutionandCNRS,Paris,France
PereMartinez
UniversitatdeBarcelona,FacultatdeBiologia,Departamentde
Genètica,Barcelona,Spain
MichelC.Milinkovitch
UniversitéLibredeBruxelles,InstituteforMolecularBiology&
Medicine,LaboratoryofEvolutionaryGenetics,Gosselies,Belgium
GerdB.Müller
UniversityofVienna,DepartmentofTheoreticalBiology,Vienna,
Austria,andKonradLorenzInstituteforEvolutionandCognition
Research,Altenberg,Austria