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 | | Evolutionary biologists are not only intrigued by the diversity of life, but are also keenly aware of the contributions to biology that come from studying diverse organisms. | | | Changes in the neural, hormonal, and developmental mechanisms underlying behavior are also objects of evolutionary study, as are the adaptive differences among species in memory, patterns of learning, and other cognitive processes, some of which are reflected in differences in brain structure. | | | Evolutionary studies often involve experiments, such as placing populations in new environments and monitoring changes or selecting directly on a particular character of interest. |
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http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ecolevol/fulldoc.html
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| | Neuroendocrine, ecological, and evolutionary aspects of social behavior in primates. | | | Disease ecology, spatial ecology, population genetics, animal behavior and conservation biology. | | | Experimental community ecology, theory of multi-species systems, marine ecology, stream ecology, avian ecology, species extinctions and introductions, evolutionary ecology. |
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http://pondside.uchicago.edu/ceb/faculty.html
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| | ScienceWeek |
| | Related Background: EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: FUTURE PROSPECTS The various fields of science are conceptual categorizations, constructions of the human mind, and as such are continually in flux in response to new data and new ways of looking at old data. | | | There is a particular focus on developmental reprogramming, which lies logically between mutation and selection, yet has been neglected in mainstream evolutionary theory. | | | Genes influence developmental processes, and a change in development will often change more than one part of the phenotype. |
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http://scienceweek.com/2003/sw030117.htm
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| | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| | Evolutionary history and diversity of terrestrial arthropods (body plan, phylogenetic relations, fossil record); physiology and functional morphology (water relations, thermoregulation, energetics of flying and singing); reproduction (biology of reproduction, life cycles, metamorphosis, parental care); behavior (migration, communication, mating systems, evolution of sociality); ecology (parasitism, mutualism, predator-prey interactions, competition, plant-insect interactions). | | | Scope is comprehensive, including theoretical concepts, ecological and evolutionary dynamics, molecular biology, and epidemiology of ancient and emerging diseases. | | | Topics include how behavior evolves and what factors ultimately shape animal decision making and life histories; the link between animal behavior and population dynamics (demographic models that translate behavior into life-history strategies are used); and how environmental perturbations influence animal life histories to alter population structure and dynamics. |
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http://www.yale.edu/bulletin/html2003/grad/eeb.html
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| | The KLI Theory Lab - Developmental Biology |
| | A continuation of "Roux's Archives of Development Biology"; as such, it follows the tradition initiated by Wilhelm Roux, who founded the journal in 1890 as a forum for the exchange of ideas to promote experimental embryology. | | | Students with aspirations to careers in health sciences and medicine receive fundamentals for acquiring more precise knowledge of human development, and students on their way to graduate school obtain contemporary information on the known and unknown sides of embryos. | | | The aim of this project is to get video sequences of developing embryos (organisms), and experimental techniques, from the developmental biologist's lab to the eyeballs of interested individuals in a user-friendly and inexpensive form. |
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http://www.kli.ac.at/theorylab/Areas/DB.html
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| | SICB Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology - newsletter 04-2000 |
| | Research interests: Evolutionary origins and relationships of major metazoan lineages (including body plan origins and evolution); molecular systematics and phylogenetic theory, invertebrate organismal evolution (especially lophophorates), diversification of hydrothermal vent fauna (especially pogonophorans), lagomorph (rabbits and pikas) phylogenetics. | | | The division is the first formal union of researchers in the field and will have to play a pivotal role in the process of defining the identity of the discipline. | | | Research interests: My research interests focus on innovations and mechanisms that facilitate evolutionary changes and on the constraining effect of internal selection on evolutionary changes (i.e., selection caused by characteristics of the developmental system). |
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http://www.sicb.org/newsletters/nl04-2000/dedb.php3
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| | The New Yorker: The Critics: Books |
| | Although experiments so far suggest that evolutionary changes at switches are fairly common, it’s not yet clear whether they’re the norm. | | | Studies like those in the stickleback are notoriously hard to perform, and there are very few cases where we can point to the genetic changes that underlie the evolution of animal form. | | | Organisms show two kinds of change through time: during the lifetime of a single animal (you don’t look much like the egg you started as) and during the evolutionary history of a biological lineage (you don’t look much like your three-and-a-half-billion-year-old ancestor). |
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http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/051024crbo_books1
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| | The Evolution of Developmental Pathways - Sinauer Associates, Inc. |
| | The integration of the latter three subjects into evolutionary developmental biology is still in its early stages, however. | | | From this perspective, the author explores the nature of the genetic, molecular, and selectional events that alter these pathways, yielding developmental change. | | | Adam Wilkins’ book, The Evolution of Developmental Pathways, is the most scholarly and thoughtful of the lot.” |
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http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=9164
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| | The Origin of Animal Body Plans. A study in Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Wallace Arthur). |
| | "The time is ripe for a major drive to increase our understanding of the creative side of evolution, and to correct the lopsidedness in existing evolutionary theory". | | | However according to Wallace Arthur "The time is ripe for a major drive to increase our understanding of the creative side of evolution, and to correct the lopsidedness in existing theory" | | | "The core of the book deals with a single, controversial question of the utmost importance: do biases in the ways in which embryos and other developmental stages can be modified provide a sort of internal 'direction-finder' to the process of evolution that interacts with its external equivalent, namely natural selection? |
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http://home.wxs.nl/~gkorthof/korthof55.htm
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| | Jessica A. Bolker |
| | We are also investigating the development of left-right asymmetry: some forms of malpigmentation may reflect patterning defects in which skin on one side of the body follows a developmental pathway appropriate for the oppposite side. | | | Other areas of interest include sturgeon embryology, the interesetion of econology and development, and using writing to teach and learn biology. | | | A new area is consideration of the inherent, evolved structure or architecture of development, especially the significance of this architecture for computer models and algorithms seeking to represent evolutionary processes and explore their behavior in silico. |
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http://www.unh.edu/users/unh/acad/colsa/marine-program/admin/facBolker.htm
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| | Developmental Biology Online: alt.evodevo: Reticulate Evolution and Sequential Chimeras |
| | Scientists such as Shostak and Williamson are saying that some major phenomena such as the origin of cnidocysts and the origin of shared larval stages cannot be explained yet and demand an even broader evolutionary theory that would include the merger of genomes across phyletic boundaries. | | | He views the tree of life as having anastomoses where branches from different trunks fuse together. | | | Heritable changes in development are caused by the traditional means of mutation and recombination. |
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http://7e.devbio.com/article.php?ch=23&id=228
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| | Evo-Devo: evolutionary developmental mechanisms |
| | ABSTRACT Evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo) as a discipline is concerned, among other things, with discovering and understanding the role of changes in developmental mechanisms in the evolutionary origin of aspects of the phenotype. | | | In a very real sense, Evo-Devo opens the black box between genotype and phenotype, or more properly, phenotypes as multiple life history stages arise in many organisms from a single genotype. | | | Evolutionary developmental mechanisms also include interactions between individuals of the same species, individuals of different species, and species and their biotic and/or abiotic environment. |
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http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/abstract.03078/a491.htm
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| | Faculty - L. Patricia Hernandez |
| | Ultimately natural selection acts to cull failed experiments, but the only way that novel morphologies are generated is through modification of developmental mechanisms. | | | Such structural complexity coupled with amazing morphological diversity makes this group especially well suited for study within an evolutionary developmental perspective. | | | Thus a second area of study within my lab entails investigating the developmental mechanisms (as defined through molecular interactions/mechanisms) that are involved in the generation of different morphologies. |
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http://www.gwu.edu/~clade/faculty/hernandez
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| | The Development of Animal Form - Cambridge University Press |
| | Considerably less time has been spent on the exploitation of the wealth of facts and concepts available from traditional disciplines, such as comparative morphology, even though these traditional approaches can continue to offer a fresh insight into evolutionary developmental questions. | | | This approach leads to unconventional views on the basic features of animal organization, such as body axes, symmetry, segments, body regions, appendages and related concepts. | | | The Development of Animal Form aims to integrate traditional morphological and contemporary molecular genetic approaches and to deal with post-embryonic development as well. |
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http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0511057628
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| | STRI hears about a new field in biology |
| | Against the Evo-Devo view of evolution he advocates, he compared the "illusions" inherent in the long-prevailing 19th century view promulgated by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel and in the perspective of paleontological morphism. | | | However, merely knocking out the goosecoid using microsurgery does not turn a sea urchin species that goes through a larval phase into a direct developer. | | | Because who Rudy Raff is and what he does are examples of academic development that sharply contrast with Panama's underdeveloped academic culture, and that's newsworthy in and of itself for a publication that covers Panama. |
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http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_11/issue_12/science_03.html
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| | ASU SoLS Faculty: Manfred Laubichler |
| | His work in theoretical biology is focused on conceptual and mathematical issues, such as the problem of defining biological characters in development and evolution, the homology problem, and the theory of epistatic and epigenetic effects. | | | In evolutionary developmental biology Dr Laubichler is interested in the relationship between changes in gene expression patterns and morphological changes in the vertebrate limb system. | | | G.Geison and M.D. Laubichler (2001): Reflections on the Role of Organismal and Cultural Variation in the History of the Biological Sciences, Stud. |
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http://sols.asu.edu/faculty/mlaubichler.php
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| | IU Biology: Development Faculty |
| | Evolutionary developmental biology, phenotypic plasticity, morphological and behavioral diversity in arthropods. | | | Cell and Developmental Biology; Mechanisms of cytoplasmic movement and mitosis. | | | Evolutionary developmental biology and evolution of animal body plans. |
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http://www.bio.indiana.edu:16080/facultyresearch/development.html
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| | We seek an individual who has a developmental focus on evolutionary questions using any organism or group of organisms (animals, plants, or other). | | | Teaching and mentoring experience at graduate and undergraduate levels. | | | Active research program in evolutionary developmental biology using any organism or group of organisms (animals, plants, or other). |
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http://www.ku.edu/~clas/employment/04/assistant_professor_evolutionary_developmental_biology.doc
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| | IU Biology Faculty: Rudy Raff |
| | Finally, we are studying how larvae originated, and the genic processes that occurred in the origins of larval forms. | | | We have isolated several such genes, and we are studying their roles in the evolution of development by experimentally manipulating the expression of these genes in sea urchin embryos. | | | Evolutionary developmental biology -- The evolution of body form requires not only that genes evolve, but that development from egg to adult also evolves. |
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http://www.bio.indiana.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/RaffR.html
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| | The morphogenesis of evolutionary developmental biology |
| | This essay will trace one of the major pathways, that from evolutionary embryology to Evo-Devo and it will show the interactions of this pathway with two other sources of Evo-Devo: ecological developmental biology and medical developmental biology. | | | Tributaries flowing into Evo-Devo came from such disciplines as embryology, developmental genetics, evolutionary biology, ecology, paleontology, systematics, medical embryology and mathematical modeling. | | | The phenotype of Evo-Devo is limited by internal constraints on what could be known given the methods and equipment of the time and it has been framed by external factors that include both academic and global politics. |
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http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/abstract.03078/a467.htm
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| | Harvard University Press: Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| | It draws from development, evolution, paleontology, ecology, and molecular and systematic biology, but has its own set of questions, approaches, and methods. | | | The fundamental principle of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") is that evolution acts through inherited changes in the development of the organism. | | | Evo-devo strives for a unification of genomic, developmental, organismal, population, and natural selection approaches to evolutionary change. |
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http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HALKEY.html
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| | KLI Ellen Larsen |
| | I will use "morphogenesis" as the vanatage point from which to examine the kinds of questions and contributions of different disciplines to understanding the evolution of development. | | | A current “designer organism&; approach tests to what extent developmental constraints might be responsible for morphologies conserved in evolution. | | | If the resynthesis of development and evolution is to be more than a passing fad, a dialogue must establish the questions and types of disciplinary integration that make the evo-devo enterprise a distinct field rather than a loose amalgamation of approaches ranging from paleontology to genomics. |
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http://www.kli.ac.at/personal/larsen.html
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| | University of Chicago Evolution Development Biology |
| | Find out more about specific areas of research interest and the faculty pursuing them | | | Information on our meetings and seminar series, graduate courses, and other academic opportunities | | | Research descriptions for our faculty working in fields relevant to Developmental Evolutionary Biology |
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http://www.ucevodevo.org
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| | Developmental Biology, Courses and Resources |
| | Jacqueline McLaughlin's and Elizabeth McCain's, Developmental and Physiological Aspects of the Chicken Embryonic Heart | | | Stephen Devoto's Biology 321, Cells in Development, focuses on the molecular basis of cell behaviors, and how cellular behaviors lead to the generation of tissue and animal forms during development. | | | The Biology Project, developed at The University of Arizona, has a Developmental Mechanisms problem set designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of development in a variety of organisms. |
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http://www.sdbonline.org/archive/SDBEduca/courses.html
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| | Department 4: Evolutionary Biology |
| | Complementing this macroevolutionary approach with microevolutionary studies within the genus Pristionchus and between different wild-isolates of P. | | | Developmental processes can be studied at a single cell resolution, many species can be cultured under laboratory conditions and postembryonic processes are amenable to genetic analysis. | | | The center of our research is the evolutionary analysis of vulva formation because the development of the egg-laying structure is very well understood in C. |
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http://www.eb.tuebingen.mpg.de/dept4/home.html
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| | University of Chicago Hospitals: University of Chicago to host conference on evolutionary developmental biology |
| | She studies behavioral ecology and the evolution of species interactions by way of model genetic systems, as well as model ecological ones. | | | He also is a fellow of Merton College, and the head of the Development Research Group. | | | In the midst of today's ardent popular debate surrounding evolution and intelligent design, this conference assembles world-renown scientists of diverse intellectual interests--including not only basic and medical scientists, but also scholars who examine the history of science and the philosophy of its practice. |
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http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2005/20051017-dbec.html
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| | USNews.com: Sean Carroll: Dances with fruit flies |
| | And while some 55 percent of Americans balk at the idea that humans evolved at all, analysis of the genes that build our bodies shows our clear kinship not just to the apes but all the way back to bugs, worms, and beyond. | | | He emerges as the new, user-friendly public face of evolutionary science in the process. | | | Along the way, scientists are starting to find concrete explanations for everything from our large brains to just exactly how the fruit fly--or the leopard, for that matter--got its spots. |
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/050328/28evo.htm
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| | Evolutionary Genetics syllabus |
| | This course will explore how our growing knowledge of developmental circuits, and their variation, affects our understanding of how organisms evolve. | | | On the other hand, Developmental Biology focuses mostly on understanding the processes of development in single model organisms, disregarding variation that exists in members of the population, and members of closely related species. | | | Course objectives: The objectives of this course are to integrate two disciplines, Evolutionary Biology and Developmental Biology into a common framework. |
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http://www.arachnology.org/monteiro/evo-devo.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Evolutionary Developmental Biology of the Cerebral Cortex - No. 228 (CIBA Foundation Symposia Series): ... |
| | The book includes critical examinations of methods used to study homology in the central nervous system and methods used in cladistic analysis. | | | Subjects > Science > Biological Sciences > Biology > General | | | The comparison of immature stages reveals features of evolution that are otherwise obstructed by the complexity of the mature brain, and the analysis of development in terms of possible evolutionary events helps us to focus on the most biologically relevant mechanisms. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471979783?v=glance
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| | Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| | We can't have three eyes, or a nose on top of our head because these changes would influence other systems to an extent that would make the whole process of development untenable. | | | The original authors are no longer at the University of Leeds, and the former Centre for Human Biology became the School of Biomedical Sciences which is now part of the Faculty of Biological Sciences. | | | So it looks as if a single epigenetic process, coupled with threshold responses not only initiates differentiation and morphogenesis of the nervous system, but also integrates the differentiation and morphogenesis of all the primary organ systems within the embryo. |
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/edb12.html
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| | Faculty in Depart of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology-KU |
| | There are three, broad areas of research interest in the lab. | | | By integrating phylogenetic, molecular evolutionary and molecular developmental approaches, we aim to understand patterns of morphological evolution, the underlying genetic mechanisms leading to diversification, and how gene family evolution correlates with morphological change. | | | Faculty in Depart of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology-KU Faculty in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
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http://www.ku.edu/~eeb/faculty/hileman.html
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| | Wiley::Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology |
| | The author s premium on accessibility allows readers at all levels to enhance their vocabulary in their field and understand terminology beyond their specific focus. | | | Developmental biology is the study of the mechanisms of development, differentiation, and growth in animals and plants at the molecular, cellular, and genetic levels. | | | The Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology is the first comprehensive reference focused on the terms, research, history, and people of this field. |
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http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471443573.html
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| | PhilSci Archive - How Developmental is Evolutionary Developmental Biology? |
| | In this article, I outline core concerns of evo-devo, distinguish theoretical and practical variants, and counter Sterelny’s recent argument that evo-devo’s attention to development, while important, offers no significant challenge to evolutionary theory as we know it. | | | Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) offers both an account of developmental processes and also new integrative frameworks for analyzing interactions between development and evolution. | | | Robert, Jason Scott (2002) How Developmental is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?. |
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http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000546
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| | Environment, Development, and Evolution - The MIT Press |
| | The chapters are filled with ideas and new perspectives that offer alternatives to the ways most evolutionists think." | | | Taken together, these chapters demonstrate the crucial roles of those processes of genetic, developmental, physiological, and hormonal change that underpin evolutionary change in development, morphology, physiology, behavior, and life-history. | | | It brings together a group of leading researchers to analyze the dynamic interaction of environmental factors with developmental and physiological processes and to examine how environmental signals are translated into phenotypic change, from the molecular and cellular level to organisms and groups of organisms. |
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item?sid=2B71304E-7C97-48E5-96F9-2BBFFA92297C&ttype=2&tid=9988
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| | for someone who has basic molecular biology skills who also likes to work | | | Demonstrable practical experience in standard molecular biology techniques, including molecular cloning is essential, however. | | | Candidates applying for this part of the project should have a Diploma or Master degree in Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, Biology or related fields, and should have demonstrable experience with methods of phylogeny reconstruction (e.g. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/MORPH/jobs/jobsoth.html
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| | Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama |
| | Candidates must have a Ph.D. and postdoctoral research experience. | | | We seek candidates whose research utilizes modern molecular approaches to study the evolution of developmental mechanisms in either plant or animal systems. | | | The successful applicant will be expected to interact with and strengthen existing research groups in developmental genetics, cellular biology, neurobiology, molecular evolution, and/or systematics. |
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http://www.as.ua.edu/biology/evodevo.htm
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| | European society for Evolutionary Developmental biology |
| | The scientific program will consist of plenary sessions, symposia, contributed talks and a poster session. | | | The aim of the society is to promote evolutionary developmental biology by regularly organizing meetings on this subject in Europe, perhaps alternating with the meetings of ESEB. | | | Details on the stem groups and the integral role of palaeontology in evolutionary developmental biology symposium are available. |
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http://www.natur.cuni.cz/evodevo
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| | Meetings in plant developmental evolution |
| | 2005: Causes and consequences of floral developmental change | | | This workshop will be organized by developmental biologists with expertise in phylogenetic theory. | | | The goal will be to examine how comparative developmental information (from molecular to cell to organ and organismic levels) from diverse plant taxa can be analyzed to infer evolutionary history. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/MORPH/meetings/MORPH.html
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| | Evolutionary biology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Evolutionary biology's frameworks of ideas and conceptual tools are now finding application in the study of a range of subjects from computing to nanotechnology. | | | Evolutionary biology is an interdisciplinary field because it includes scientists from many traditional taxonomically-oriented disciplines. | | | For example, it generally includes scientists who may have a specialist training in particular organisms such as mammalogy, ornithology, or herpetology but use those organisms as systems to answer general questions in evolution. |
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| | Principles of Developmental Biology |
| | 17.15 and 17.16], and through heterochrony, a change in the relative timing of a developmental process. | | | Modern studies of evolutionary developmental biology investigate how individual genes, gene networks, signaling pathways, life histories, and embryology may generate novelty. | | | Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in this problem, triggered by new technologies of molecular biology and genetics. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/college/biology/devbio/chaptersummary/ch17.htm
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| | Evolution - Evolutionary developmental biology |
| | Morphological structures are produced by growth, and their form emerges from the process of development. | | | Thus evolutionary changes in the form of an organ are frequently developmental: they are produced by changes in the rate or timing of developmental events. | | | An organ may evolve to be larger if its growth speeds up, and it may change shape if the growth rate of one of its parts speeds up relative to other parts. |
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http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/tutorials/Evolutionary_developmental_biology2.asp
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| | University of Chicago Hospitals: University of Chicago to host "evo-devo" symposium |
| | Evolutionary developmental biology, also known as "evo-devo" studies the genes that control embryonic development in different organisms to answer questions about evolution. | | | But developmental geneticists think the creature might have been simpler, relying on a few sets of genes to shuffle and rearrange to produce the myriad different body plans we see today. | | | For example, scientists used to think that the common ancestor to all complex animals had to be a relatively complex creature itself, no matter how primitive. |
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http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/1999/19990426-evolecture.html
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| | Graduate students plan second conference on evolutionary and developmental biology |
| | As they study development, biologists are teasing out the molecular mechanisms that control the way an embryo becomes a chicken or a salamander. | | | The conference will provide developmental and evolutionary biologists an opportunity to meet, discuss and learn how their different approaches may illuminate their converging questions. | | | The conference is drawing interest from researchers, many graduate students, from all over the United States as well as from Japan and Europe. |
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http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/011018/evodevo.shtml
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| | Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| | The ideal candidate will have a developmental focus on evolutionary questions using any organism or group of organisms (animals, plants, or other). | | | Ph.D. (by date of appointment) required, postdoctoral experience preferred; commitment to excellence in research, service, and undergraduate/graduate education required, teaching experience preferred; commitment to seeking extramural funding for research required, demonstrated ability to secure such funding preferred. | | | The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas invites applications for a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of evolutionary developmental biology beginning 18 August 2004 (exceptional candidates at higher ranks may, in some cases, be considered). |
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http://elegans.swmed.edu/Announcements/ksu_posn.html
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| | Research Interests-Dr. Scott Gilbert |
| | This has been an ongoing project and focuses on (1) the history of embryology with respect to genetics, and (2) the interactions between biology and society. | | | The History of Biology and its Social Functions | | | Second, while the Developmental Biology book focuses on the cellular and molecular aspects of development, a second volume, |
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http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/sgilber1/researchinterests.html
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| | Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 97003021 |
| | Evolutionary Developmental Biology: 4.1 From pattern to mechanism 4.2 The aims of Evolutionary Developmental Biology 4.3 A brief history 4.4 Is there a theory of development? | | | Preface Acknowledgements Part I. Introduction: 1.1 A developmental approach to an evolutionary problem 1.2 The early history of the animal kingdom 1.3 Alternative strategies 1.4 Creation versus destruction 1.5 Systematics and the concept of natural classification 1.6 Micromutation versus macromutation 1.7 Developing organisms as inverted cones Part II. | | | What is a Body Plan?: 2.1 Body plans and taxonomic levels 2.2 Body plans, cladograms and homology 2.3 Body plans and embryology 2.4 Body plans, genes and mutations 2.5 Body plans, adaptation and environments Part III. |
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