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Author:   Maximilian J. Telford (Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment, University College London) ,  D.T.J. Littlewood (The Natural History Museum, London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.624kg
ISBN:  

9780199570300

ISBN 10:   0199570302
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   13 August 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Peter W.H. Holland: Foreword Maximilian J. Telford & D. Timothy J. Littlewood: Introduction I. Origins of animals 1: Graham E. Budd: The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance 2: Kevin J. Peterson, James A. Cotton, James G. Gehling & Davide Pisani: The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geologic fossil records 3: Scott A. Nichols, Mark, J. Dayel & Nicole King: Genomic, phylogenetic, and cell biological insights into metazoan origins 4: Andreas Hejnol & Mark Q. Martindale: The mouth, the anus and the blastopore - open questions about questionable openings II. The Bilateria 5: Rudolf A. Raff: Metazoan body plan origins: the larval revolution 6: Gonzalo Giribet, Casey W. Dunn, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Andreas Hejnol, Mark Q. Martindale & Greg W. Rouse: Assembling the spiralian tree of life 7: Detlev Arendt, Alexandru S. Denes, Gáspár Jékely & Kristin Tessmar-Raible: The evolution of nervous system centralisation 8: Maximilian J. Telford, Sarah J. Bourlat, Andrew Economou, Daniel Papillon & Omar Rota-Stabelli: The origins and evolution of the Ecdysozoa 9: Andrew B. Smith & Billie J. Swalla: Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives 10: Christopher J. Lowe: Molecular genetic insights into deuterostome evolution from the direct-developing hemichordate Saccoglossus kowalevskii III. Themes and Perspectives 11: Ronald A. Jenner & D. Timothy J. Littlewood: Invertebrate Problematica: kinds, causes, and solutions 12: Nicolas Lartillot & Hervé Philippe: Improvement of molecular phylogenetic inference and the phylogeny of Bilateria 13: Jeffrey L. Boore & Susan I. Fuerstenberg: Beyond linear sequence comparisons: the use of genome-level characters for phylogenetic reconstruction 14: Richard R. Copley: The animal in the genome: comparative genomics and evolution 15: Erik A. Sperling & Kevin J. Peterson: MicroRNAs and metazoan phylogeny: big trees from little genes 16: Andrew D. Peel: The evolution of developmental gene networks: lessons from comparative studies on holometabolous insects 17: Patrícia Beldade & Suzanne V. Saenko: Conserved developmental processes and the evolution of novel traits: wounds, embryos, veins, and butterfly eyespots

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<br> Highly Recommended. The book covers a wide variety of work summarizing major findings among the bilaterally symmetrical metazoa regarding how animals have diversified. Contributors provide a clear sense of where progress has been made and where challenges remain. Each presents the strengths, weaknesses, and criticisms inherent to each approach. -- Choice<br>

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Max Telford completed his D.Phil at the University of Oxford in 1993. After a year working in Paris he spent 6 years as a research fellow at The Natural History Museum before taking up a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship in Cambridge in 2000. He moved back to London in 2003 and is now Reader in Zoology in the Department of Biology, University College London. He has two principle related research interests; in metazoan molecular systematics, which provides the essential evolutionary framework for all comparative zoology and in comparative developmental (Evo-devo) studies principally in the arthropods. Tim Littlewood completed his PhD at the University of the West Indies and received his DSc from the University of Manchester. He has worked at The Natural History Museum since 1991 where he worked as a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow (1996-2005) and is currently an Individual Merit Researcher in the Department of Zoology. His research programme includes a study of the evolution of parasitism in flatworms, comparative mitogenomics and the wider applications of phylogenetics amongst a variety of animal groups over a range of taxonomic levels.

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