Evolutionary developmental biology
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Evolutionary developmental biology (evolution of development or informally, evo-devo) is a field of biology that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine the ancestral relationship between them, and to discover how developmental processes evolved.
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See also
- Developmental biology
- Animal evolution
- Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Baldwin effect
- Developmental systems theory
- Evolution of multicellularity
- Genetic assimilation
- Ontogeny
- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
- List of gene families
- Important publications in evolutionary developmental biology
- Evolution and Development Leading journal
- Body plan
- Cell signaling
- Signal transduction
- Cell signaling networks
- Transcription factor
- Enhancer
- Enhanceosome
- promoter (biology)
- Gene regulatory network
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