The shape of life : genes, development, and the evolution of animal form / Rudolf A. Raff.
- Raff, Rudolf A.
- Date:
- 1996
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Physical description
xxiii, 520 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Contents
Over the ice for ontogeny and phylogeny -- Metazoan phyla and body plans -- Deep time and metazoan origins -- Molecular phylogeny : dissecting the metazoan radiation -- Recovering data from the past -- Developmental basis of body plans -- Building similar animals in different ways -- It's not all heterochrony -- Developmental constraints -- Modularity, dissociation and co-option -- Opportunistic genomes -- Evolving new body plans.
Bibliographic information
Includes index and bibliography: p. 435-491.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesQH350 1996R13s
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ISBN
- 0226702650
- 0226702669