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- 020 __ |a 9780878932993 (paperbound) : |c CNY329.00
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- 050 00 |a QH438.5 |b .G55 2009
- 099 __ |a CAL 022009097391
- 100 1_ |a Gilbert, Scott F., |d 1949-
- 245 10 |a Ecological developmental biology : |b integrating epigenetics, medicine, and evolution / |c Scott F. Gilbert, David Epel.
- 260 __ |a Sunderland, Mass. : |b Sinauer Associates, |c c2009.
- 300 __ |a xv, 480 p. : |b ill. (chiefly col.) ; |c 24 cm.
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 505 0_ |a 1. The environment as a normal agent in producing phenotypes -- 2. How agents in the environment effect molecular changes in development -- 3. Developmental symbiosis: co-development as a strategy for life -- 4. Embryonic defenses: survival in a hostile world -- 5. Teratogenesis: environmental assaults on development -- 6. Endocrine disruptors -- 7. The epigenetic origin of adult diseases -- 8. The modern synthesis: natural selection of allelic variation -- 9. Evolution through developmental regulatory genes -- 10. Environment, development, and evolution: toward a new synthesis -- Coda: philosophical concerns raised by ecological developmental biology.
- 520 __ |a "When the molecular processes of epigenetics meet the ecological processes of phenotypic plasticity, the result is a revolutionary new field: ecological developmental biology, or "eco-devo." This new science studies development in the "real world" of predators, pathogens, competitors, symbionts, toxic compounds, temperature changes, and nutritional differences. These environmental agents can result in changes to an individual's phenotype, often implemented when signals from the environment elicit epigenetic changes in gene expression. Ecological developmental biology is a truly integrative biology, detailing the interactions between developing organisms and their environmental contexts. Ecological developmental biology also provides a systems approach to the study of pathology, integrating the studies of diabetes, cancers, obesity, and the aging syndrome into the framework of an ecologically sensitive developmental biology.^It looks at examples where the environment provides expected cues for normal development and where the organism develops improperly without such cues. Data from research on teratology, endocrine disruptors, and microbial symbioses, when integrated into a developmental context, may have enormous implications for human health as well as the overall health of Earth's ecosystems. The study of epigenetics--changes in gene expression that are not the result of changes in a gene's DNA sequence--has recently provided startling insights not only into mechanisms of development, but also into the mechanisms and processes of evolution. The notion that epialleles (changes in chromosome structure that alter gene expression) can be induced by environmental agents and transmitted across generations has altered our notions of evolution, as have new experiments documenting the genetic fixation of environmentally induced changes in development.^The widespread use of symbiosis in development provides new targets for natural selection. Ecological developmental biology integrates these new ideas into an extended evolutionary synthesis that retains and enriches the notion of evolution by natural selection."--Publisher's description.
- 650 _0 |a Evolution (Biology)
- 650 _0 |a Phenotypic plasticity.
- 650 _0 |a Developmental biology.
- 905 __ |a CAU |f Q11/GSF/ED-11 |b W0086069(or.)
- 907 __ |a CAU |f Q11/GSF/ED-11 |b W0086069(or.)
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