All vertebrate embryos follow a common developmental path due to their common ancestry. All have a set of very similar genes (the homeobox genes) that define their basic body plan. As they grow, the ...
It would be hard to imagine two more different timescales in the lives of organisms than development--the transformation of an embryo to an adult within a single generation--and evolution--the ...
THE first part of this book deals with those embryological processes which are common to most of the higher animal forms, and presents in assimilable form the accepted views on cleavage, germ layer ...
IN the rapidly-shifting condition of our knowledge of the development of all kinds of animals, it is a most difficult thing to produce a satisfactory treatise on Comparative Embryology. None the less ...
Foreword page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1: What is Evo-Devo and Why is it Important? -- What is Evo-Devo? -- Origins of Evo-Devo: the Homeobox -- Origins of Evo-Devo: Other Factors -- Evo-Devo ...
"With 2057 drawings and photographs, grouped as 380 illustrations." SCDIRB copy 39088019622893 not included in the Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished). SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian ...
The four species of lampreys native to the upper Great Lakes (American brook lamprey, Lampetra lamotteni; chestnut lamprey, Ichthyomyzon castaneus; northern brook lamprey, I. fossor; and silver ...
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