Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo) and Behaviour (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series B) issue 1574

Front Cover
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Copyright......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
Introduction......Page 4
Development of both morphology and behaviour is sensitive to environmental influences......Page 5
Genes and environment......Page 6
Integration of proximate and ultimate explanations......Page 7
The behaviour of form and the link to function......Page 8
Evo-devo on behaviour: comparing levels......Page 9
Developmental mechanisms underlying phenotypic novelty......Page 10
Conclusions......Page 11
What the articles say......Page 12
REFERENCES......Page 13
Some achievements of evo-devo......Page 17
Some goals of evo-devo......Page 18
Evo-devo as a discipline......Page 19
Evolvability as a focus for the evolution of form......Page 20
REFERENCES......Page 21
Levels of analysis......Page 24
Non-alternative hypotheses: immediate-early gene expression in songbird brains......Page 25
Generating hypotheses......Page 27
Defining categories......Page 28
Proximate-ultimate reciprocity......Page 29
Conclusion......Page 30
REFERENCES......Page 31
Introduction......Page 34
Evolvability of sensory circuits......Page 35
Motor system evolution......Page 36
Biophysical properties and neuromodulation in multi-functional circuits......Page 37
Species-specific behaviours are produced from nervous systems comprising homologous neurons......Page 38
Parallel and convergent evolution of complex motor behaviours......Page 39
Evolvability of neural circuits underlying social behaviour......Page 40
Summary......Page 41
REFERENCES......Page 42
Homology and the conservation of behavioural traits......Page 48
Conservation of gene function in behaviour......Page 49
Gene pathways and the biological clock......Page 50
Regulation of the foraging gene across species......Page 51
Sleep......Page 53
Epigenetics, genomic responses to early adversity......Page 54
REFERENCES......Page 55
Introduction: frameworks to relate natural variation in behaviour, brain structure and genes......Page 59
Evolution shapes development......Page 60
Theories of brain function underlying the first hypotheses of brain evolution......Page 61
Phylogenetic variations in brain structure......Page 62
Second and third components......Page 64
Mice follow the pattern, but some mouse strains are outliers......Page 65
A computational context for brain variation......Page 66
Two large classes of behavioural variation?......Page 67
REFERENCES......Page 68
Introduction......Page 72
Deconstructing language into biologically tractable units......Page 73
Conceptional-intentional processes in animal communication?......Page 74
The comparative approach......Page 75
Gene structure, molecular upstream regulators and target genes......Page 76
FoxP2 expression studies during brain development and in postnatal brains......Page 77
Functional analysis of Foxp2 in mutant mice......Page 80
Functional analysis of FoxP2 in songbirds......Page 81
Conclusions......Page 82
REFERENCES......Page 83
Empirical evidence for a selective advantage of circadian rhythms around 24 h......Page 89
Early evolution of circadian timing mechanisms: ‘escape from light’ or energy storage?......Page 90
Adjustment to changing day length as a selection force for the circadian system......Page 92
The evolutionary importance of annual timing and the role of the suprachiasmatic nucleus......Page 93
Selection pressures on intrinsic circadian period: arguments from annual timing......Page 94
Leading and lagging circadian systems: consequences for timing......Page 95
Data from latitudinal clines fit external, but not internal coincidence timing......Page 97
REFERENCES......Page 98
Introduction......Page 103
Insect societies......Page 104
Ground plans and toolkits......Page 105
Social molecular pathways......Page 107
Pheromone-regulated social pathways......Page 109
Task-related plasticity in the circadian clockwork......Page 111
REFERENCES......Page 113
Introduction: basic models of taste encoding......Page 119
The case of insects......Page 120
Central taste encoding: hedonic value of tastants as basic encoding criterion?......Page 122
A comparative analysis of taste perception......Page 125
REFERENCES......Page 126
Back Cover
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