Bridging evolution and development in plants
Bridging evolution and development in plants
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连接植物的进化和发育
DOI:
10.1111/nph.14294
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发表时间:
2016
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影响因子:
9.4
通讯作者:
Zhang Rui
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作者:
Liao Irene T;Shan Hongyan;Xu Guixia;Zhang Rui
Evolutionary developmental biology (evodevo), or the evolution of developmental processes, can be simply thought of as an integration of evolution and development (Minelli, 2015), specifically asking how developmental processes evolve to generate the diversity of morphological forms (Baum, 1998; Raff, 2000; Hall, 2003). This field emerged in the 1980s after the discovery that homologous regulatory genes controlled the patterning across animal body plans (Carroll, 2005a). Since then, many studies have taken a comparative approach to understand the evolution of the diversity of morphologies in nature, focusing on how genetic differences translate into phenotypic variation. This led to the establishment of professional societies and conferences centered to promote the study of evodevo in the past decade. In 2006, the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology held its founding meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, and in 2015, the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology held its inaugural meeting in Berkeley, CA, USA. These meetings speak to the growing interest in this discipline, and along with that, offer an opportunity to define the questions that evodevo is poised to address in the future (Moczek et al., 2015).‘... a gene can be co-opted and deployed to regulate multiple traits through independent regulation and pathways, thus alleviating the constraints of pleiotropy.’Although researchers in the plant community are represented in these societies (Specht, 2016), animal systems dominate the evodevo community. Since the Keystone Symposium on ‘The Evolution of Plant Development’in 1997 (Hake, 1997), only a few plant evodevo symposia have congregated at other professional meetings. Thus, the 37th New Phytologist Symposium became a forum for leading scientists from around the world to share current work and knowledge in the field and to discuss the main questions and motivations that drive the field of plant evodevo. In this meeting report, we will highlight the presentations in these overarching themes:(1) transitions of forms,(2) repeated