Conserved Genes and Developmental Mechanisms in Embryos of Divergent Species, Conference to be held December 26-30, 1992, Vancouver, Canada

该研讨会将在美国动物学家协会的年度会议上举行，这是一个基础广泛的协会，包括许多发育和进化生物学家。提议的演讲者是一群对发展作为一个进化过程感兴趣的发育生物学家。该计划包括研究具有不同幼虫形态的密切相关物种的胚胎的胚胎学家，以及比较不同物种胚胎发生过程中控制身体计划形成的基因的遗传学家和分子生物学家。现在有证据表明，胚胎的变化可以深刻地影响一个物种的生活史，特别是在产生不同的幼虫形式方面。随着对控制胚胎发育的基因的了解越来越多，有可能确定胚胎发育过程中存在的进化限制。这个领域的一个问题是进化生物学家和发育生物学家之间缺乏交流。本次研讨会旨在通过将这组发育生物学家暴露给广泛的受众，在不同学科的科学家之间产生讨论。这种相互作用应该重新引起人们对胚胎如何发育以及发育变化如何影响进化过程的兴趣。

The proposed symposium will be held at the annual meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, a broad based society which includes many developmental and evolutionary biologists. The proposed speakers are a group of developmental biologists who are interested in development as an evolutionary process. The program includes embryologists who study the embryos of closely related species with different larval forms, as well as geneticists and molecular biologists who compare genes governing the formation of the body plan during embryogenesis in different species. There is now evidence that embryonic changes can profoundly influence the life history of a species, especially in producing different larval forms. As more becomes known about the genes governing embryonic development, it may be possible to identify evolutionary constraints present in the elaboration of an embryo. One problem in this field has been lack of communication between evolutionary and developmental biologists. This symposium is designed to generate discussion between scientists in different disciplines, by exposing this group of developmental biologists to a wide ranging audience. The interaction should generate renewed interest in how embryos develop, and in how developmental changes may influence the evolutionary process.