Tinkering No. 284 : the Microevolution of Development

Tinkering: The Microevolution of Development......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
The evolutionary developmental biology of tinkering: an introduction to the challenge......Page 14
Tinkering: a conceptual and historical evaluation......Page 33
DISCUSSION......Page 42
Tinkering: new embryos from old—rapidly and cheaply......Page 48
DISCUSSION......Page 58
The relationship between development and evolution through heritable variation......Page 68
DISCUSSION......Page 78
Genetic networks as transmitting and amplifying devices for natural genetic tinkering......Page 84
DISCUSSION......Page 99
Butterfly eyespot patterns and how evolutionary tinkering yields diversity......Page 103
DISCUSSION......Page 114
GENERAL DISCUSSION I......Page 123
Tinkering with transcription factor proteins: the role of transcription factor adaptation in developmental evolution......Page 129
DISCUSSION......Page 138
Tinkering with constraints in the evolution of the vertebrate limb anterior–posterior polarity......Page 143
DISCUSSION......Page 151
Affecting tooth morphology and renewal by fine-tuning the signals mediating cell and tissue interactions......Page 155
DISCUSSION......Page 166
GENERAL DISCUSSION II......Page 171
Evolution of covariance in the mammalian skull......Page 177
DISCUSSION......Page 198
The developmental genetics of microevolution......Page 204
DISCUSSION......Page 213
The economy of tinkering mammalian teeth......Page 220
DISCUSSION......Page 229
Pelvic skeleton reduction and Pitx1 expression in threespine stickleback populations......Page 238
DISCUSSION......Page 252
Using patterns of fin and limb phylogeny to test developmental– evolutionary scenarios......Page 258
DISCUSSION......Page 268
Craniofacial variation and developmental divergence in primate and human evolution......Page 275
DISCUSSION......Page 286
Contributor Index......Page 293
Subject Index......Page 295