| Paths less traveled: evo-devo approaches to investigating animal morphological evolution. | |
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PMID: 23057749 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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One of the chief aims of modern biology is to understand the causes and mechanisms of morphological evolution. Multicellular animals display a stunning diversity of shapes and sizes of their bodies and individual suborganismal structures, much of it important to their survival. What is the most efficient way to study the evolution of morphological diversity? The old-new field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) can be particularly useful for understanding the origins of animal forms, as it aims to consolidate advances from disparate fields such as phylogenetics, genomics, morphometrics, cell biology, and developmental biology. We analyze the structure of some of the most successful recent evo-devo studies, which we see as having three distinct but highly interdependent components: (a) morphometrics, (b) identification of candidate mechanisms, and (c) functional experiments. Our case studies illustrate how multifarious evo-devo approaches taken within the three-winged evo-devo research program explain developmental mechanisms for morphological evolution across different phylogenetic scales. |
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Ricardo Mallarino; Arhat Abzhanov |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Annual review of cell and developmental biology Volume: 28 ISSN: 1530-8995 ISO Abbreviation: Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. Publication Date: 2012 Nov |
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Created Date: 2012-10-12 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9600627 Medline TA: Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 743-63 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138; email: abzhanov@fas.harvard.edu. |
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