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Arthropod Biology and Evolution - Molecules, Development, Morphology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)
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Arthropod Biology and Evolution - Molecules, Development, Morphology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013)
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More than two thirds of all living organisms described to date
belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But their diversity, as measured
in terms of species number, is also accompanied by an amazing
disparity in terms of body form, developmental processes, and
adaptations to every inhabitable place on Earth, from the deepest
marine abysses to the earth surface and the air. The Arthropoda
also include one of the most fashionable and extensively studied of
all model organisms, the fruit-fly, whose name is not only linked
forever to Mendelian and population genetics, but has more recently
come back to centre stage as one of the most important and more
extensively investigated models in developmental genetics. This
approach has completely changed our appreciation of some of the
most characteristic traits of arthropods as are the origin and
evolution of segments, their regional and individual
specialization, and the origin and evolution of the appendages. At
approximately the same time as developmental genetics was
eventually turning into the major agent in the birth of
evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), molecular
phylogenetics was challenging the traditional views on arthropod
phylogeny, including the relationships among the four major groups:
insects, crustaceans, myriapods, and chelicerates. In the meantime,
palaeontology was revealing an amazing number of extinct forms that
on the one side have contributed to a radical revisitation of
arthropod phylogeny, but on the other have provided evidence of a
previously unexpected disparity of arthropod and arthropod-like
forms that often challenge a clear-cut delimitation of the phylum.
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