Epigenetics

Epigenetics:
Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution

1. Introduction: Emergent Properties and the Phenotype
Hallgrimsson and Hall

Historical and Philosophical Foundations
2. Historical Foundations
Brian K. Hall

3. Heuristic Reductionism and the Relative Significance of Inheritance
James Grisemer


Approaches to Epigenetics
4. Genomic imprinting
Vett Lloyd

5. Methylation Mapping in Humans
Christoph Grunau, Montpellier

6. Asexuality and Epigenetic Variation
Root Gorelick, Manfred Laubichler and Rachel Massicotte

7. Preformation and the Humpty Dumpty Problem
Ellie Larsen

8. A Principle of Developmental Inertia
Allesandro Minelli


Epigenetics of Vertebrate Organ Development
9. Nervous System Development
Carol Schuurmans

10. Morphogenesis of pigment patterns
Lennart Olsson

11. Interactions of the Cardiac Neural Crest
Margaret Kirby

12. Bone and Cartilage Development
Tamara Franz-Odendaal

13. Muscle-Bone Interactions and the Development of Skeletal Phenotype
Sue Herring

14. Apical Ectoderm in the Developing Vertebrate Limb
Cooper, L.N, Armfield, B.A., J.G.M. Thewissen

15. Role of Skeletal Muscle in the Shaping of Organs, Tissues and Cell Fate Choices
Boris Kablar

Epigenetics in Evolution and Disease
16. Integration, Complexity and Evolvability of the Head
Dan Lieberman

17. Epigenetic interactions: The developmental route to functional integration
Miriam Leah Zelditcha and Donald L. Swiderski

18. Epigenetic Contributions to Adaptive Radiation
Susan Foster

19. Learning, Developmental Plasticity, and the Rate of Morphological Evolution
Rich Palmer and Chris Neufeld

20. Epigenetics: Adaptation or Contingency
Thomas Hansen

21. Dysmorphology
Joan Richtsmeier

22. Human Disease
Peter Gluckman

23. Epigenetics: The Context of Development
Hallgrimsson and Hall