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Organisms develop and evolve in a modular fashion, but how individual modules interact with the environment remains poorly understood. Phenotypically plastic traits are often under selection, and studies are n...
EvoDevo 2016 7:15
Published on: 2 August 2016
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The evolution of animal segmentation is a major research focus within the field of evolutionary–developmental biology. Most studied segmented animals generate their segments in a repetitive, anterior-to-poster...
EvoDevo 2016 7:14
Published on: 1 August 2016
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The microvillus is a versatile organelle that serves important functions in disparate animal cell types. However, from a molecular perspective, the microvillus has been well studied in only a few, predominantl...
EvoDevo 2016 7:13
Published on: 12 July 2016
Short report
New branches within the embryonic chicken lung form via apical constriction, in which epithelial cells in the primary bronchus become trapezoidal in shape. These branches form at precise locations along the pr...
EvoDevo 2016 7:12
Published on: 26 May 2016
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The ancestral arthropod is believed to have had a clustered arrangement of ten Hox genes. Within arthropods, Hox gene mutations result in transformation of segment identities. Despite the fact that variation i...
EvoDevo 2016 7:11
Published on: 10 May 2016
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Platynereis and other polychaete annelids with homonomous segmentation are regarded to closely resemble ancestral forms of bilateria. The head region comprises the prostomium, the peri...
EvoDevo 2016 7:10
Published on: 12 April 2016
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Germ cells are specified during early development and are responsible for generating gametes in the adult. After germ cells are specified, they typically migrate to a particular niche in the organism where the...
EvoDevo 2016 7:9
Published on: 11 April 2016
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Shifts in floral form across angiosperms, particularly from radially symmetrical to bilaterally symmetrical flowers, are often associated with shifts in speciation rates and changes in pollination syndrome. Gr...
EvoDevo 2016 7:8
Published on: 31 March 2016
Short report
Freshwater planarians are well known for their regenerative abilities. Less well known is how planarians maintain spatial patterning in long-lived adult animals or how they re-pattern tissues during regenerat...
EvoDevo 2016 7:7
Published on: 30 March 2016
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The aquiferous body plan of poriferans revolves around internal chambers comprised of choanocytes, a cell type structurally similar to choanoflagellates. These choanocyte chambers perform a range of physiologi...
EvoDevo 2016 7:6
Published on: 8 March 2016
Review
The Neotropical frog genera Ceratophrys, Chacophrys and Lepidobatrachus form the monophyletic family Ceratophryidae. Although in- and out-group relationships are not fully resolved, the monophyly of the three ge...
EvoDevo 2016 7:5
Published on: 27 February 2016
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The Hippo pathway regulates growth rate and organ size in fly and mouse, notably through control of cell proliferation. Molecular interactions at the heart of this pathway are known to have originated in the u...
EvoDevo 2016 7:4
Published on: 19 February 2016
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Cichlid fishes from the Rift Lakes of East Africa have undergone the most spectacular adaptive radiations in vertebrate history. Eco-morphological adaptations in lakes Victoria, Malawi and Tanganyika have resu...
EvoDevo 2016 7:3
Published on: 21 January 2016
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The evolutionary mechanisms involved in shaping complex gene regulatory networks (GRN) that encode for morphologically similar structures in distantly related animals remain elusive. In this context, echinoder...
EvoDevo 2016 7:2
Published on: 11 January 2016
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Obligate intracellular symbionts of insects are metabolically and developmentally integrated with their hosts. Typically, reproduction fails in many insect nutritional endosymbioses when host insects are cured...
EvoDevo 2016 7:1
Published on: 11 January 2016
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It has been hypothesized that the ParaHox gene Gsx patterned the foregut of the last common bilaterian ancestor. This notion was corroborated by Gsx expression in three out of four lophotrochozoan species, severa...
EvoDevo 2015 6:41
Published on: 29 December 2015
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Development of cerebral eyes is generally based on fine-tuned networks and closely intertwined with the formation of brain and head. Consistently and best studied in insects and vertebrates, many signaling pat...
EvoDevo 2015 6:40
Published on: 22 December 2015
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Fish correspond to the most diversified phylum among vertebrates with a large variety of species. Even if general features are distinguishable during the embryogenesis, several differences in term of timing, o...
EvoDevo 2015 6:39
Published on: 18 December 2015
Meeting report
We analyze the interdisciplinary state of evolutionary developmental biology based on the diversity of themes, taxa, levels of organization and scientists at the first meeting of the Pan-American Society for E...
EvoDevo 2015 6:38
Published on: 9 December 2015
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Wnt signaling pathways are highly conserved signal transduction pathways important for axis formation, cell fate specification, and organogenesis throughout metazoan development. Within the various Wnt pathway...
EvoDevo 2015 6:37
Published on: 4 December 2015
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The origin of discrete novelties remains unclear. Some authors suggest that qualitative phenotypic changes may result from the reorganization of preexisting phenotypic traits during development (i.e., developm...
EvoDevo 2015 6:36
Published on: 1 December 2015
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The variation in mandibular morphology of mammals reflects specialisations for different diets. Omnivorous and carnivorous mammals posses large mandibular coronoid processes, while herbivorous mammals have pro...
EvoDevo 2015 6:35
Published on: 14 November 2015
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The evolution and development of sexual dimorphism illuminates a central question in biology: How do similar genomes produce different phenotypes? In an XX/XO system especially the state of a sexually dimorphi...
EvoDevo 2015 6:34
Published on: 10 November 2015
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The longstanding canonical model of spider gastrulation posits that cell internalization occurs only at a unitary central blastopore; and that the cumulus (dorsal organizer) arises from within the early deep l...
EvoDevo 2015 6:33
Published on: 21 October 2015
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Understanding how genes change during evolution to direct the development of diverse body plans is a major goal of the evo-devo field. Achieving this will require the establishment of new model systems that re...
EvoDevo 2015 6:32
Published on: 16 October 2015
