Animal evolution genomes, fossils, and trees
Foreword; Introduction; I. ORIGINS OF ANIMALS; 1. The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance; 2. The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geologic fossil records; 3. Genomic, phylogenetic, and cell biological insights into metazoan origins; 4...
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Oxford u.a.
Oxford University Press
2009
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Oxford biology
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Foreword; Introduction; I. ORIGINS OF ANIMALS; 1. The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance; 2. The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geologic fossil records; 3. Genomic, phylogenetic, and cell biological insights into metazoan origins; 4. The mouth, the anus and the blastopore -- open questions about questionable openings; II. THE BILATERIA; 5. Metazoan body plan origins: the larval revolution; 6. Assembling the spiralian tree of life; 7. The evolution of nervous system centralisation; 8. The origins and evolution of the Ecdysozoa; 9. Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives; 10. Molecular genetic insights into deuterostome evolution from the direct-developing hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii; THEMES AND PERSPECTIVES; 11. Invertebrate Problematica: kinds, causes, and solutions; 12. Improvement of molecular phylogenetic inference and the phylogeny of Bilateria; 13. Beyond linear sequence comparisons: the use of genome-level characters for phylogenetic reconstruction; 14. The animal in the genome: comparative genomics and evolution; 15. MicroRNAs and metazoan phylogeny: big trees from little genes; 16. The evolution of developmental gene networks: lessons from comparative studies on holometabolous insects; 17. Conserved developmental processes and the evolution of novel traits: wounds, embryos, veins, and butterfly eyespots; 18. Reassembling animal evolution: a four-dimensional puzzle |
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| Beschreibung: | Originating from a Royal Society Discussion Meeting first publ. in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 245 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 25cm |
| ISBN: | 9780199549429 978-0-19-954942-9 9780199570300 978-0-19-957030-0 0199549427 0-19-954942-7 0199570302 0-19-957030-2 |