Ecological Developmental Biology - Scott F. Gilbert, David Epel

Ecological Developmental Biology

Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution
Buch | Softcover
400 Seiten
2008
Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-87893-299-3 (ISBN)
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This is an important text for a still-emerging field of Biology, relating the embryo to its environment. Intersecting numerous disciplines in the Biological and Life Sciences, the authors have provided coverage in which the molecular biology of epigenetic development meets and interacts with the evolutionary aspects of phenotypic plasticity.
Written for a new field currently lacking a proper textbook, it relates the embryo to its environment, and demonstrates how development in nature is different from development in the laboratory. This book introduces a new field of Biology that is currently lacking a textbook. The coverage provided intersects numerous disciplines. The book provides new and important perspectives on Ecology, Conservation Biology, Cancer Biology, Ageing Research, Medicine, and Evolution; and allows students to approach the study of nature in a new way.This is a text for a new field of Biology that relates the embryo to its environment. Intersecting numerous disciplines in the Biological and Life Sciences, the authors have provided coverage in which the molecular biology of epigenetic development meets and interacts with the evolutionary aspects of phenotypic plasticity.

SCOTT A. GILBERT, Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology, Martin Laboratories, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA DAVID EPEL, Jane& Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Monterey, CA, USA

PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNALS AND NORMAL DEVELOPMENT The Environment as a Normal Agent in Producing Phenotypes How Agents in the Environment Effect Molecular Changes in Development Developmental Symbiosis: Co-Development as a Strategy for Life Embryonic Defenses: Survival in a Hostile World PART II: ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY AND DISEASE STATES Teratogenesis: Environmental Assaults on Development Endocrine Disruptors The Epigenetic Origin of Adult Diseases PART III: TOWARD A DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS The Modern Synthesis: Natural Selection of Allelic Variation Evolution through Developmental Regulatory Genes Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a New Synthesis CODA: Philosophical Concerns Raised by Ecological Developmental Biology APPENDX A: Lysenko, Kammerer, and the Truncated Tradition of Ecological Developmental Biology APPENDIX B: The Molecular Mechanisms of Epigenetic Change APPENDIX C: Writing Development Out of the Modern Synthesis APPENDIX D: Epigenetic Inheritance Systems: The Inheritance of Environmentally Induced Traits

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.2.2009
Zusatzinfo Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps
Verlagsort Sunderland
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1010 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Genetik / Molekularbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Schlagworte Entwicklung (Biologie)
ISBN-10 0-87893-299-2 / 0878932992
ISBN-13 978-0-87893-299-3 / 9780878932993
Zustand Neuware
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