Modularity in development and evolution
β Scribed by Gerhard Schlosser; Denis Thieffry
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0265-9247
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
For at least a century biologists have been talking, mostly in a black-box sense, about developmental mechanisms. Only recently have biologists succeeded broadly in fishing out the contents of these black boxes. Unfortunately the view from inside the black box is almost as obscure as that from witho
Morphological similarities between organisms may be due to either homology or homoplasy. Homologous structures arise by common descent from an ancestral form, whereas homoplasious structures are independently derived in the respective lineages. The finding that similar ontogenetic mechanisms underli
The cloning of genes involved in pathways fundamental to morphogenesis has opened the door to visualizing expression of developmental regulatory genes in many organisms. Expression data have become technical commonplace in analysis of mutants of Drosophila melanogaster and a handful of other genetic