Muscles of Chordates: Development, Homologies, and Evolution

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Rui Diogo (Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA) Janine M. Ziermann (Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA)

Muscles of Chordates

Development, Homologies, and Evolution

Rui Diogo (Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA), Janine M. Ziermann (Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA), Julia Molnar (Johns Hopkins University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA) , Natalia Siomava (Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC, USA)

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CRC Press
18 April 2018

Developmental biology; Zoology: Vertebrates

Chordates comprise lampreys, hagfishes, jawed fishes, and tetrapods, plus a variety of more unfamiliar and crucially important non-vertebrate animal lineages, such as lancelets and sea squirts. This will be the first book to synthesize, summarize, and provide high-quality illustrations to show what is known of the configuration, development, homology, and evolution of the muscles of all major extant chordate groups. Muscles as different as those used to open the siphons of sea squirts and for human facial communication will be compared, and their evolutionary links will be explained. Another unique feature of the book is that it covers, illustrates, and provides detailed evolutionary tables for each and every muscle of the head, neck and of all paired and median appendages of extant vertebrates.

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Has more than 200 high-quality anatomical illustrations, including evolutionary trees that summarize the origin and evolution of all major muscle groups of chordates

Includes data on the muscles of the head and neck and on the pectoral, pelvic, anal, dorsal, and caudal appendages of all extant vertebrate taxa Examines experimental observations from evolutionary developmental biology studies of chordate muscle development, allowing to evolutionarily link the muscles of vertebrates with those of other chordates Discusses broader developmental and evolutionary issues and their implications for macroevolution, such as the links between phylogeny and ontogeny, homology and serial homology, normal and abnormal development, the evolution, variations, and birth defects of humans, and medicine.

By: Rui Diogo (Howard University Washington District of Columbia USA), Janine M. Ziermann (Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA), Julia Molnar (Johns Hopkins University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA), Natalia Siomava (Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC, USA), Virginia Abdala
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 1.746kg
ISBN: 9781138571167
ISBN 10: 1138571164
Pages: 650
Publication Date: 18 April 2018
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rui Diogo is an Associate Professor at Howard University College of Medicine and a member of the Resource Faculty at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at George Washington University. One of the youngest researchers to be nominated as Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists, he won several prestigious awards, being the only researcher to be selected for the first/second place for best article of the year in the top anatomical journal two times in just three years (2013/2015). Author or co-author of more than 100 papers in top journals, such as Nature, and of numerous book chapters, he is the co-editor of three books and the sole or first author of eleven books covering subjects as diverse as fish evolution, chordate development, and human medicine and pathology, including a book adopted at medical schools worldwide, ""Learning and understanding human anatomy and pathology: an evolutionary and developmental guide for medical students. Julia Molnar is a Research Associate in the College of Medicine at Howard University in the Department of Anatomy. Janine Ziermann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy at Howard University's College of Medicine.

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Muscles of Chordates

Development, Homologies, and Evolution

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