Paths less traveled: Evo-devo approaches to investigating animal morphological evolution

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2012, Pages 743-763

  Mallarino, Ricardo ^a   Abzhanov, Arhat ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comparative developmental analysis, functional analysis; evolutionary developmental biology; morphological transition; morphometrics

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CRUSTACEA; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENOMICS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STICKLEBACK;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL FINS; ANIMALS; BEAK; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84870234916     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: 15308995     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-101011-155732     Document Type: Review

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