Von Baer's law for the ages: Lost and found principles of developmental evolution

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 712-722

  Abzhanov, Arhat ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Evolutionary developmental biology; Karl Ernst von Baer; Morphological complexity; Parallelism; Recapitulation

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LAW; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; KARL ERNST VON BAER; MORPHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; PARALLELISM; RECAPITULATION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84888134112     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2013.09.004     Document Type: Review

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