EVOLVING PATHWAYS: KEY THEMES IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

By J. MATIA

CONTENTS PART I THINKING ABOUT EVOLUTION BY TAKING DEVELOPMENT ON BOARD EVO-DEVO AS A DISCIPLINE MAKING EVOLUTIONARY PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF DEVELOPMENT AND MORPHOLOGY: BEYOND THE NEO-DARWINIAN AND CONSTRAINTS PARADIGMS CON?ICTING HYPOTHESES ON THE NATURE OF MEGA-EVOLUTION PROSPECTS OF EVO-DEVO FOR LINKING PATTERN AND PROCESS IN THE EVOLUTION OF MORPHOSPACE THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY UNDERLYING DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION EVO-DEVO’S IDENTITY: FROM MODEL ORGANISMS TO DEVELOPMENTAL TYPES PART II EVO-DEVO: METHODS AND MATERIALS A PRAGMATIC APPROACH FOR SELECTING EVO-DEVO MODEL SPECIES IN AMNIOTES ON COMPARISONS AND CAUSES IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF MACRO- AND MICRO-EVOLUTION WITH ECOLOGY WHEN IS A HOX GENE NOT A HOX GENE? THE IMPORTANCE OF GENE NOMENCLATURE PLANTS ARE USED TO HAVING IDENTITY CRISES PART III EVOLVING DIVERSITY UNRAVELLING BODY PLAN AND AXIAL EVOLUTION IN THE BILATERIA WITH MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETIC MARKERS ARE TRANSPOSITION EVENTS AT THE ORIGIN OF THE BILATERIAN HOX COMPLEXES? MANY ROADS LEAD TO ROME: DIFFERENT WAYS TO CONSTRUCT A NEMATODE BASAL EUARTHROPOD DEVELOPMENT: A FOSSIL-BASED PERSPECTIVE DEVELOPMENTAL TRANSITIONS DURING THE EVOLUTION OF PLANT FORM PART IV EVOLVING BODY FEATURES URBISEXUALITY: THE EVOLUTION OF BILATERIAN GERM CELL SPECI?CATION AND REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS THOUGHTS AND SPECULATIONS ON THE ANCESTRAL ARTHROPOD SEGMENTATION PATHWAY EVOLUTION OF NEUROGENESIS IN ARTHROPODS ARTHROPOD APPENDAGES: A PRIME EXAMPLE FOR THE EVOLUTION OF MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND INNOVATION ONTOGENY OF THE SPIRALIAN BRAIN