Research Catalog

Title

Fins into limbs : evolution, development, and transformation / edited by Brian K. Hall.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Hall, Brian K. (Brian Keith), 1941-

Description

433 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Subject

• Extremities (Anatomy) > Evolution

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

1. Fins and limbs and fins into limbs : the historical context, 1840-1940 / Peter J. Bowler -- 2. Skeletal changes in the transition from fins to limbs / Michael I. Coates and Marcello Ruta -- 3. A historical perspective on the study of animal locomotion with fins and limbs / Eliot G. Drucker and Adam P. Summers -- 4. Fins and limbs in the study of evolutionary novelties / Gunter P. Wagner and Hans C. E. Larsson -- 5. The development of fins and limbs / Mikiko Tanaka and Cheryll Tickle -- 6. Mechanisms of chondrogenesis and osteogenesis in fins / P. Eckhard Witten and Ann Huysseune -- 7. Mechanisms of chondrogenesis and osteogenesis in limbs / Scott D. Weatherbee and Lee A. Niswander -- 8. Apoptosis in fin and limb development / Vanessa Zuzarte-Luis and Juan M. Hurle -- 9. Joint formation / Charles W. Archer, Gary P. Dowthwaite and Philippa Francis-West -- 10. Postnatal growth of fins and limbs through endochondral ossification / Cornelia E. Farnum -- 11. Paired fin repair and regeneration / Marie-Andree Akimenko and Amanda Smith -- 12. Tetrapod limb regeneration / David M. Gardiner and Susan V. Bryant -- 13. Evolution of the appendicular skeleton of amphibians / Robert L. Carroll and Robert B. Holmes -- 14. Limb diversity and digit reduction in reptilian evolution / Michael D. Shapiro, Neil H. Shubin and Jason P. Downs -- 15. Limbs in mammalian evolution / P. David Polly -- 16. Skeletal adaptations for flight / Stephen M. Gatesy and Kevin M. Middleton -- 17. Adaptations for digging and burrowing / Nathan J. Kley and Maureen Kearney -- 18. Aquatic adaptations in the limbs of amniotes / J. G. M. Thewissen and Michael A. Taylor -- 19. Sesamoids and ossicles in the appendicular skeleton / Matthew K. Vickaryous and Wendy M. Olson.

ISBN

• 0226313379 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780226313375 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0226313360 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780226313368 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006011177

OCLC

• ocm67405516
• 67405516
• SCSB-5317382

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries