... Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY) . development evolution gene regulation morphology The contemporary field of evolutionary developmental biology (or evo devo) built on the pioneering evolutionary embryology of the 19th and early 20th...

... are emerging models for understanding two intimately linked developmental processes: (i) patterning, which creates regions of distinct cell types, and (ii) growth, which increases tissue size, generates organ shape and acts as a modifier of patterning processes [ 72 , 73 ]. During petal development...

...Aurora M. Nedelcu The integration of evolutionary and developmental approaches into the field of evolutionary developmental biology has opened new areas of inquiry— from understanding the evolution of development and its underlying genetic and molecular mechanisms to addressing the role...