Morphological diversification through the evolution of developmental hierarchies

• Author(s): Shirai, Leila
• Date: 2014
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/14096
• Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Document Type: Doctoral thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Beldade, Patrícia
• Contributor(s): RUN

Description

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?

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