Ecological developmental biology: integrating epigenetics, medicine, and evolution

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. INDICE: Preface - An Introduction to Phenotypic Plasticity in Animals - Signals From Above: How Environmental Agents Cause Molecular Changes in Development - Developmental Symbiosis: Co-development as a Strategy for Life - Embryo Survival in a Hostile World: General Principles - Teratogenesis: EnvironmentalAssaults on Development - Endocrine Disruptors - The Epigenetic Origin of Adult Diseases - An Evolutionary Synthesis I: Natural Selection of Allelic Variation - An Evolutionary Synthesis II: Developmental Regulatory Genes - An Evolutionary Synthesis III: Ecology, Development, and Evolution - APPENDICES - Evolutionary Developmental Biology as an Alternative Tradition for Explaining Variation and Biodiversity - The Molecular Mechanisms of Epigenetic Change - Writing Out Development from Evolution - Transgeneration Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants and Animals (After Jablonka and Raz, 2008)

• ISBN: 978-0-87893-299-3
• Editorial: Sinauer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 28/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés