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Epigenetics : linking genotype and phenotype in development and evolution / / edited by Benedikt Hallgrimsson and Brian K. Hall
| Epigenetics : linking genotype and phenotype in development and evolution / / edited by Benedikt Hallgrimsson and Brian K. Hall |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (469 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.5/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HallgrimssonBenedikt
HallBrian Keith <1941-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Phenotype
Epigenesis Genotype-environment interaction Genetic regulation Developmental genetics Evolutionary genetics |
| ISBN |
1-283-33185-3
9786613331854 0-520-94882-3 |
| Classificazione | WG 1940 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Brief History of the Term and Concept Epigenetics -- 3. Heuristic Reductionism and the Relative significance of Epigenetic Inheritance in evolution -- 4. The Epigenetics of Genomic Imprinting: Core Epigenetic Processes are conserved in Mammals, Insects, and Plants -- 5. Methylation Mapping in Humans -- 6. Asexuality and Epigenetic Variation -- 7. Epigenesis, Preformation, and the Humpty Dumpty Problem -- 8. A Principle of Developmental Inertia -- 9. The Role of Epigenetics in Nervous System Development -- 10. Morphogenesis of Pigment Patterns: Experimental and Modeling Approaches -- 11. Epigenetic Interactions of the Cardiac Neural Crest -- 12. Epigenetics in Bone and cartilage Development -- 13. Muscle-Bone Interactions and the Development of skeletal Phenotype: Jaw muscles and the skull -- 14. Evolution of the Apical Ectoderm in the Developing Vertebrate Limb -- 15. Role of Skeletal Muscle in the Epigenetic Shaping of Organs, Tissues, and Cell Fate Choices -- 16. Epigenetic Integration, Complexity, and Evolvability of the Head: Rethinking the Functional Matrix Hypothesis -- 17. Epigenetic Interactions: The Developmental Route to Functional Integration -- 18. Epigenetic Contributions to Adaptive Radiation: Insights from Threespine Stickleback -- 19. Learning, Developmental Plasticity, and the Rate of Morphological Evolution -- 20. Epigenetics: Adaptation or Contingency? -- 21. The Epigenetics of Dysmorphology. Craniosynostosis as an Example -- 22. Epigenetics of Human Disease -- 23. Epigenetics: The Context of Development -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816619303321 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Variation / / edited by Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian Hall
| Variation / / edited by Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian Hall |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (594 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.5/4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HallgrimssonBenedikt
HallBrian Keith <1941-> |
| Soggetto topico | Variation (Biology) |
| ISBN |
1-280-63060-4
9786610630608 0-08-045446-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Variation; Variation; CONTENTS; Variation and Variability: Central Concepts in Biology; REFERENCES; Variation from Darwin to the Modern Synthesis; INTRODUCTION; I. VARIATION BEFORE DARWIN; II. DARWIN AND VARIATION; III. ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF VARIATION AND EVOLUTION; IV. NEO-DARWINISM; V. THE EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS; VI. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; The Statistics of Variation; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; I. ABSOLUTE VARIATION: UNIVARIATE CASE; II. ABSOLUTE VARIATION: MULTIVARIATE CASE; III. RELATIVE VARIATION: UNIVARIATE CASE; IV. RELATIVE VARIATION: MULTIVARIATE CASE; V. DIMENSIONALITY OF VARIATION
VI. TIGHTNESSVII. MEASUREMENT ERROR AND SINGLE SPECIMENS; REFERENCES; Landmark Morphometrics and the Analysis of Variation; INTRODUCTION; I. COORDINATE DATA AND THE COORDINATE SYSTEM; II. THE GENERAL PERTURBATION MODEL FOR LANDMARK VARIATION; III. PROPER ELIMINATION OF NUISANCE PARAMETERS USING A COORDINATE SYSTEM INVARIANT METHOD OF ESTIMATION; IV. ADDING ASSUMPTIONS TO THE PERTURBATION MODEL; V. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Variation in Ontogeny; INTRODUCTION; I. MEASURING VARIATION: A CASE STUDY; II. IMPLICATIONS FOR STUDIES OF VARIATION; III. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCESConstraints on Variation from Genotype through Phenotype to Fitness; INTRODUCTION; I. RNA EVOLUTIONARY MODEL; II. EVOLVING CONSTRAINTS ON VARIATION IN RNA; III. MECHANISTIC CONSTRAINTS; IV. EPISTATIC CONSTRAINTS; V. VIABILITY CONSTRAINTS; VI. MODULARITY: A WAY OUT OF THE CONSTRAINTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Developmental Origins of Variation; INTRODUCTION; I. DOES INTRINSIC DEVELOPMENTAL VARIATION EXIST?; II. INTRINSIC VARIATION IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS; III. POTENTIAL ORIGINS OF INTRINSIC DEVELOPMENTAL VARIATION; IV. AN EXAMPLE OF NOISE IN EUKARYOTIC TRANSCRIPTION V. NOISY BICOID GENE EXPRESSION IN FRUIT FLIESVI. NOISE IN ASYMMETRY PRODUCTION; VII. NOISY IMPLICATION FOR EVOLUTION; VIII. NETWORKS; IX. MORPHOGENETIC FIELDS: A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF VARIATION; X. IMPLICATIONS; XI. SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Canalization, Cryptic Variation, and Developmental Buffering: A Critical Examination and Analytical Perspective; INTRODUCTION; I. A REVIEW OF THE REVIEWS; II. EMPIRICAL CONCERNS FOR THE STUDY OF CANALIZATION; III. DEFINITIONS OF CANALIZATION; IV. REACTION NORM OF THE MEAN (RxNM) DEFINITION OF CANALIZATION XV. THE FUTURE FOR STUDIES OF CANALIZATION |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810772203321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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