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720 1 _aHall, Brian K.
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245 0 0 _aCells in Evolutionary Biology
_bTranslating Genotypes into Phenotypes - Past, Present, Future
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_c2018
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aEvolutionary Cell Biology
506 0 _aFree-to-read
_fUnrestricted online access
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520 _aThis book is the first in a projected series on Evolutionary Cell Biology, the intent of which is to demonstrate the essential role of cellular mechanisms in transforming the genotype into the phenotype by transforming gene activity into evolutionary change in morphology. This book -Cells in Evolutionary Biology - evaluates the evolution of cells themselves and the role cells have been viewed to play as agents of change at other levels of biological organization. Chapters explore Darwin's use of cells in his theory of evolution and how Weismann's theory of the separation of germ plasm from body cells brought cells to center stage in understanding how acquired changes to cells within generations are not passed on to future generations. The study of evolution through the analysis of cell lineages during embryonic development dominated evolutionary cell biology until usurped by the switch to genes as the agents of heredity in the first decades of the 20th century. Discovery that cells exchanged organelles via symbiosis led to a fundamental reevaluation of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and to a reorganizations of the Tree of Life. Identification of cellular signaling centers, of mechanisms responsible for cellular patterning, and of cell behavior and cellular condensations as mediating the plasticity that enables phenotypic change during evolution, provided powerful new synergies between cell biology and evolutionary theory and the basis for Evolutionary Cell Biology.
540 _aAll rights reserved
_uhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights
546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aBiology, life sciences
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653 _abiological organization
653 _acells
653 _aevolution of cells
653 _arole
720 1 _aHall, Brian K.
_4oth
720 1 _aMoody, Sally A.
_4edt
720 1 _aMoody, Sally A.
_4oth
793 0 _aDOAB Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28248
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_zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication
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