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Animal Anomalies

What Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development
Buch | Softcover
294 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-81974-9 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
This book explains animal anomalies of all kinds. It focuses on development and its physical mechanisms, as well as evolution and its historical perspective. It is intended as a supplement for courses in developmental biology at the undergraduate or graduate level, for specialized seminars, honors classes, and capstone courses.
Among the offspring of humans and other animals are occasional individuals that are malformed in whole or in part. The most grossly abnormal of these have been referred to from ancient times as monsters, because their birth was thought to foretell doom; the less severely affected are usually known as anomalies. This volume digs deeply into the cellular and molecular processes of embryonic development that go awry in such exceptional situations. It focuses on the physical mechanisms of how genes instruct cells to build anatomy, as well as the underlying forces of evolution that shaped these mechanisms over eons of geologic time. The narrative is framed in a historical perspective that should help students trying to make sense of these complex subjects. Each chapter is written in the style of a Sherlock Holmes story, starting with the clues and ending with a solution to the mystery.

Lewis I. Held, Jr. is Associate Professor of Developmental Genetics in the Department of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University. He is a fly geneticist who has taught human embryology for 35 years. He studied molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, 1973), investigated bristle patterning under John Gerhart at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1977), and conducted postdoctoral research with Peter Bryant and Howard Schneiderman at the University of California, Irvine (1977–86). This is his sixth scholarly monograph, following Models for Embryonic Periodicity (Karger, 1992), Imaginal Discs (Cambridge, 2002), Quirks of Human Anatomy (Cambridge, 2009), How the Snake Lost its Legs (Cambridge, 2014), and Deep Homology? (Cambridge, 2017).

Preface; Part I. Frogs: 1. The introspective frog; 2. Two-headed tadpoles; 3. Extra-legged frogs; Part II. Flies: 4. The double-jointed fly; 5. The four-winged fly; 6. The naked fly; Part III. Dogs: 7. The Shar-Pei; 8. The bully whippet; 9. The Great Pyrenees; Part IV. Cats: 10. The blotched tabby; 11. The Siamese cat; 12. The calico cat.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 242 mm
Gewicht 620 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Genetik / Molekularbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zellbiologie
ISBN-10 1-108-81974-5 / 1108819745
ISBN-13 978-1-108-81974-9 / 9781108819749
Zustand Neuware
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