Genomic Control Process: Development and Evolution by Peter, Isabelle, Davidson, Eric H.(February 10, 2015) Hardcover

by Eric H. Davidson

This work provides a unique global overview of the logical structure of the genomically encoded regulatory systems that control and shape all animal developmental process, and that determine the nature of evolutionary processes that affect body plan. Davidson and Peter unify and simplify the currently largely phenomenological descriptions of development and evolution by focusing on the causality in these processes. In a single volume this book provides a comprehensive way of thinking and learning about the genomic control of very diverse biological processes. It therefore functions as an explanatory framework rather than numerous small explanatory examples floating in an unorganized descriptive background.Conceptually organizes a constellation of complex and diverse biological phenomenaInvestigates fundamental developmental control system logic in diverse circumstances and expresses these in conceptual modelsExplores mechanistic evolutionary processes, illuminate the evolutionary consequences of developmental control systems as they are encoded in the genome

Genres: Science

Hardcover

First published September 1, 2013

About the author

Eric Harris Davidson was an American developmental biologist at the California Institute of Technology. Davidson was best known for his pioneering work on the role of gene regulation in evolution, on embryonic specification and for spearheading the effort to sequence the genome of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. He devoted a large part of his professional career to developing an understanding of embryogenesis at the genetic level. He wrote many academic works describing his work, including a textbook on early animal development.