Across the bridge : understanding the origin of the vertebrates /: understanding the origin of the vertebrates. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Henry Gee.
• Authors: Gee, Henry, 1962-
• Contents: What is a vertebrate?. Vertebrates in context ; What makes a vertebrate? ; Breaking branches ; Summary -- Shaking the tree. Embranchements and transformation ; Evolution and ancestors ; Summary -- Embryology and phylogeny. From embryos to desperation ; Genes and phylogeny ; Summary -- Hox and homology. A brief history of homeosis ; The Geoffroy inversion ; The phylotypic stage ; The meaning of homology ; Summary -- What is a deuterostome? -- Echinoderms -- Hemichordates -- Amphioxus -- Tunicates -- Vertebrates -- Some non-deuterostomes -- Vertebrates from the outside, in. Introduction ; The organizer ; The notochord ; Somitogenesis ; Segmentation and the head problem ; The nervous system ; Neural crest and cranial placodes ; The skeleton ; Summary -- How many sides has a chicken?. Introduction ; The enteric nervous system ; The head and the heart ; The urogenital system ; The gut and its appendages ; Immunity ; The pituitary gland ; Summary -- Some fossil forms. Fossils in an evolutionary context ; Meiofaunal beginnings ; Cambroernids ; Vetulicystids ; Vetulicolians -- Yunnanozoans ; Pikaia ; Cathaymyrus ; The earliest fossil vertebrates ; Conodonts ; Ostracoderms and placoderms ; Summary -- Breaking branches, building bridges. Defining the deuterostomes ; Ambulacraria ; Echinoderms ; Hemichordates ; Chordates ; Amphioxus ;The common ancestry of tunicates and vertebrates ; Tunicates ; Vertebrates ; Cyclostomes ; Gnathostomes ; The evolution of the face ; Crossing the bridge ; Conclusions.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 596.138; Science -- General; Vertebrates -- Origin; Vertebrates -- Evolution; Vertebrates -- Physiology; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General; Vertebrates -- Physiology; Vertebrates -- Evolution; Science -- Paleontology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Evolution
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226403199
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