Diogo / Molnar / Ziermann Muscles of Chordates

Development, Homologies, and Evolution
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-33494-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 664 Seiten

Chordates comprise all vertebrates plus a variety of unfamilar, distantly related and crucially important lineages (sea squirts, acorn worms, others). This book will be the first volume to synthesize and summarize what is known of the organization, development, homology and evolution of the muscles of all chordate animals. Muscles as different as those used by sea squirts and for human facial expression will be included. For the first time muscles of the entire body and both the pectoral and pelvic regions will be reviewed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diogo, Rui

Molnar, Julia

Ziermann, Janine M.

Abdala, Virginia

Siomava, Natalia

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, aims, and methodology. Sea squirts and other urochordates, and Amphioxus: on the origin of vertebrate muscles. Lampreys and hagfishes between invertebrates and Gnathostomes: on metamorphosis, paedomorphosis and peramorphosis. Sharks, Skates, Chimaeras, and other chondrichthyans: on the serial homology versus derived similarity of paired appendages. Sharks, Skates, Chimaeras, and other chondrichthyans: on the plesiomorphic configuration of gnathostome head muscles. Actinopterygians, Dipnoans and Coelacanths: on the transitions from fins to limbs. Actinopterygians, Dipnoans and Coelacanths: on the head, zebrafish and the links between ontogeny and phylogeny. From sarcopterygians to humans: on fins, limbs, hands and feet. From sarcopterygians to humans: on the evolution of the neck and the face. Salamanders and frogs: on the differences between limb regeneration and ontogeny, and the logic of monsters. Salamanders, frogs and caecilians: on the head, neck, and metamorphosis. Turtles, crocodylians, birds, lizards and other reptiles: on limbs, macroevolutionary morphological innovations, and hopeful monsters. Turtles, crocodylians, birds, lizards and other reptiles: on head and neck evolution. Monotremes, marsupials and placentals: on mammals, human evolution, and tool use. Monotremes, marsupials and placentals: on opossums, the scala naturae, humans and facial expressions. General Comments: on an unifying nomenclature for chordate muscles as a basis for developmental, comparative, evolutionary and medical studies

Über Autor(innen)

Rui Diogo is an Associate Professor at Howard University College of Medicine and a member of the Resource Faculty at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at George Washington University. One of the youngest researchers to be nominated as Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists, he won several prestigious awards, being the only researcher to be selected for the first/second place for best article of the year in the top anatomical journal two times in just three years (2013/2015). Author or co-author of more than 100 papers in top journals, such as Nature, and of numerous book chapters, he is the co-editor of three books and the sole or first author of eleven books covering subjects as diverse as fish evolution, chordate development, and human medicine and pathology, including a book adopted at medical schools worldwide, "Learning and understanding human anatomy and pathology: an evolutionary and developmental guide for medical students.

Julia Molnar is a Research Associate in the College of Medicine at Howard University in the Department of Anatomy.

Janine Ziermann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy at Howard University's College of Medicine.