From Clone to Bone (eBook, PDF)

The Synergy of Morphological and Molecular Tools in Palaeobiology
Redaktion: Asher, Robert J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Since the 1980s, a renewed understanding of molecular development has afforded an unprecedented level of knowledge of the mechanisms by which phenotype in animals and plants has evolved. In this volume, top scientists in these fields provide perspectives on how molecular data in biology help to elucidate key questions in estimating paleontological divergence and in understanding the mechanisms behind phenotypic evolution. Paleobiological questions such as genome size, digit homologies, genetic control cascades behind phenotype, estimates of vertebrate divergence dates, and rates of morphological evolution are addressed, with a special emphasis on how molecular biology can inform paleontology, directly and indirectly, to better understand life's past. Highlighting a significant shift towards interdisciplinary collaboration, this is a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in the integration of organismal and molecular biology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139786140
• Artikelnr.: 38275585

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; 1. Molecular tools in paleobiology: divergence and
mechanisms Robert J. Asher and Johannes Müller; Part I. Divergence: 2.
Genomics and the lost world: paleontological insights into genome evolution
Chris Organ; 3. Rocking clocks and clocking rocks: a critical look at
divergence time estimation in mammals Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, Robin M.
D. Beck and Ross D. E. MacPhee; 4. Morphological largess: can morphology
offer more and be modeled as a stochastic evolutionary process? Hans C. E.
Larsson, T. Alexander Dececchi and Luke B. Harrison; 5. Species selection
in the molecular age Carl Simpson and Johannes Müller; Part II. Mechanisms:
6. Reconstructing the molecular underpinnings of morphological
diversification: a case study of the Triassic fish Saurichthys Leonhard
Schmid; 7. A molecular guide to regulation of morphological pattern in the
vertebrate dentition and the evolution of dental development Moya Smith and
Zerina Johanson; 8. Molecular biology of the mammalian dentary: insights
into how complex skeletal elements can be shaped during development and
evolution Neal Anthwal and Abigail S. Tucker; 9. Flexibility and
constraint: patterning the axial skeleton in mammals Emily A. Buchholtz;
10. Molecular determinants of marsupial limb integration and constraint
Karen E. Sears, Carolyn K. Doroba, Xiaoyi Cao, Dan Xie and Sheng Zhong; 11.
A developmental basis for innovative evolution of the turtle shell Shigeru
Kuratani and Hiroshi Nagashima; 12. A molecular-morphological study of a
peculiar limb morphology: the development and evolution of the mole's
'thumb' Christian Mitgutsch, Michael K. Richardson, Merijn A. G. de Bakker,
Rafael Jiménez, José Ezequiel Martín, Peter Kondrashov and Marcelo R.
Sánchez-Villagra; 13. Manus horribilis: the chicken wing skeleton Michael
K. Richardson; Index.