Fins into limbs

Fins into limbs evolution, development, and transformation / [electronic resource] : edited by Brian K. Hall. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - 433 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-416) and index.

Fins and limbs and fins into limbs : the historical context, 1840-1940 / Skeletal changes in the transition from fins to limbs / A historical perspective on the study of animal locomotion with fins and limbs / Fins and limbs in the study of evolutionary novelties / The development of fins and limbs / Mechanisms of chondrogenesis and osteogenesis in fins / Mechanisms of Chondrogenesis and osteogenesis in limbs / Apoptosis in fin and limb development / Joint formation / Postnatal growth of fins and limbs through endochondral ossification / Paired fin repair and regeneration / Tetrapod limb regeneration / Evolution of the appendicular skeleton of amphibians / Limb diversity and digit reduction in reptilian evolution / Limbs in mammalian evolution / Skeletal adaptations for flight / Adaptations for digging and burrowing / Aquatic adaptations in the limbs of amniotes / Sesamoids and ossicles in the appendicular skeleton / Peter J. Bowler -- Michael I. Coates and Marcello Ruta -- Eliot G. Drucker and Adam P. Summers -- Gunter P. Wagner and Hans C. E. Larsson -- Mikiko Tanaka and Cheryl Tickle -- P. Eckhard Witten and Ann Huysseune -- Scott D. Weatherbee and Lee A. Niswander -- Vanessa Zuzarte-Luís and Juan M. Hurlé -- Charles W. Archer, Gary P. Dowthwaite, and Philippa Francis-West -- Cornelia E. Farnum -- Marie-Andrée Akimenko and Amanda Smith -- David M. Gardiner and Susan V. Bryant -- Robert L. Carroll and Robert B. Holmes -- Michael D. Shapiro, Neil H. Shubin, and Jason P. Downs -- P. David Polly -- Stephen M. Gatesy and Kevin M. Middleton -- Nathan J. Kley and Maureen Kearney -- J. G. M. Thewissen and Michael A. Taylor -- Matthew K. Vickaryous and Wendy M. Olson


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