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Section edited by David Ferrier
This section considers studies in the evolution of development and developmental processes, and into morphological evolution.
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The RAS signaling pathway is a pivotal developmental pathway that controls many fundamental biological processes including cell proliferation, differentiation, movement and apoptosis. Drosophila Seven-IN-Absentia...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:182
Published on: 7 August 2017
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The nervous system in brachiopods has seldom been studied with modern methods. An understanding of lophophore innervation in adult brachiopods is useful for comparing the innervation of the same lophophore typ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:172
Published on: 31 July 2017
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Gene duplications provide genetic material for the evolution of new morphological and physiological features. One copy can preserve the original gene functions while the second copy may evolve new functions (n...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:168
Published on: 14 July 2017
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Runt-related transcription factor 2 (RUNX2) is a transcription factor essential for skeletal development. Variation within the RUNX2 polyglutamine / polyalanine (QA) repeat is correlated with facial length within...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:110
Published on: 4 May 2017
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Pax genes are transcription factors with significant roles in cell fate specification and tissue differentiation during animal ontogeny. Most information on their tempo-spatial mode of expression is available ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:81
Published on: 16 March 2017
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Isopods (woodlice, slaters and their relatives) are common crustaceans and abundant in numerous habitats. They employ a variety of lifestyles including free-living scavengers and predators but also obligate pa...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:76
Published on: 9 March 2017
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Rotifers are microscopic aquatic invertebrates that reproduce both sexually and asexually. Though rotifers are phylogenetically distant from humans, and have specialized reproductive physiology, this work iden...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:65
Published on: 4 March 2017
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Extreme environments prompt the evolution of characteristic adaptations. Yet questions remain about whether radiations in extreme environments originate from a single lineage that masters a key adaptive pathwa...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:62
Published on: 1 March 2017
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During embryogenesis, tight regulation of retinoic acid (RA) availability is fundamental for normal development. In parallel to RA synthesis, a negative feedback loop controlled by RA catabolizing enzymes of t...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:24
Published on: 19 January 2017
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Bone-eating worms of the genus Osedax (Annelida, Siboglinidae) have adapted to whale fall environments by acquiring a novel characteristic called the root, which branches and penetrates into sunken bones. The wor...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:17
Published on: 13 January 2017
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Unicellular green algae of the genus Micrasterias (Desmidiales) have complex cells with multiple lobes and indentations, and therefore, they are considered model organisms for research on plant cell morphogenesis...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:1
Published on: 3 January 2017
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The formation of reproductive barriers in diverging lineages is a prerequisite to complete speciation according to the biological species concept. In parasites with complex life cycles, speciation may be drive...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:245
Published on: 9 November 2016
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Volvocine algae, which range from the unicellular Chlamydomonas to the multicellular Volvox with a germ–soma division of labor, are a model for the evolution of multicellularity. Within this group, the spheroidal...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:243
Published on: 9 November 2016
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The primordial germ cells (PGCs) giving rise to gametes are determined by two different mechanisms in vertebrates. While the germ cell fate in mammals and salamanders is induced by zygotic signals, maternally ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:232
Published on: 26 October 2016
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Avian plumage is ideal for investigating phenotypic convergence because of repeated evolution of the same within-feather patterns. In birds, there are three major types of regular patterns within feathers: sca...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:172
Published on: 31 August 2016
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Despite the great importance of lepidopteran wing patterns in various biological disciplines, homologies between wing pattern elements in different moth and butterfly lineages are still not understood. Among o...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:116
Published on: 26 May 2016
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The evolution of novel genes is thought to be a critical component of morphological innovation but few studies have explicitly examined the contribution of novel genes to the evolution of novel tissues. Nemato...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:114
Published on: 23 May 2016
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Developmental processes that underpin morphological variation have become a focus of interest when attempting to interpret macroevolutionary patterns. Recently, the Dental Inhibitory Cascade (dic) model has been ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:110
Published on: 20 May 2016
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Bone-devouring Osedax worms were described over a decade ago from deep-sea whale falls. The gutless females (and in one species also the males) have a unique root system that penetrates the bone and nourishes the...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:83
Published on: 14 April 2016
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The ParaHox genes play an integral role in the anterior-posterior (A-P) patterning of the nervous system and gut of most animals. The ParaHox cluster is an ideal system in which to study the evolution and regu...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:57
Published on: 3 March 2016
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