Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Development and Evolution: Insights from Echinoderms: Volume 146 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780128171875)

Sea urchins and other echinoderms, which have been studied intensively by developmental biologists for more than a century, are currently among the most prominent models for elucidating the genomic regulatory processes that control embryogenesis and the evolution of those processes. This volume contains reviews from the world's leading researchers who are using echinoderms to address these questions. Chapters focus on gene regulatory networks that drive the differentiation and morphogenesis of major embryonic tissues such as the skeleton, muscle, nervous system, immune system, pigment cells, and germ line, and on evolutionary insights from comparative studies of these networks across echinoderms and other taxa. Other chapters comprehensively review the architecture and evolution of the cell signaling pathways that establish the early embryonic axes and on recent evolutionary changes in gene networks that have led to dramatic changes in the life history modes of echinoderms. This volume provides a comprehensive, current picture of exciting research at the interface between developmental genomics and evolution from one of the research communities leading this work.

Author: Charles A. Ettensohn
ISBN-10: 0128171871
ISBN-13: 9780128171875
Publisher: Academic Press
Language: English
Published: 01/20/2022
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d