AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

Morphological diversification through the evolution of developmental hierarchies

by Leila Shirai




Institution: Universidade Nova
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Year: 2014
Record ID: 1323974
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Abstract

Changes in development impact the final form of organisms and compose the natural variation that is the raw material for evolution. Development is hierarchically structured in progressive series of cell fate determination and differentiation. How does variation in different stages of development contribute to morphological diversification?