The evolution of developmental pathways / Adam S. Wilkins.

Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, [2002], ©2002.

xvii, 603 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-580).

Context and foundations -- evolution and embryology: a brief history of a complex pas de deux -- information sources for reconstructing developmental evolution: fossils -- comparative molecular studies -- genetic pathways and networks in development -- conserved genes and functions in animal development -- case studies in pathway evolution -- evolving developmental pathways: sex determination -- segmental patterning in insects -- two organ fields: the nematode vulva and tetrapod limb -- Conundrums -- genetic source materials for developmental evolution -- costs and constraints: factors that retard and channel developmental evolution -- on growth and form: developmental and evolutionary genetics of morphogenesis -- speciation and developmental evolution -- metazoan origins and the beginnings of complex animal evolution -- the coming evolution of evolutionary developmental biology.

Copy 1. Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.