Muscles of Chordates : Development, Homologies, and Evolution

Diogo, Rui; Ziermann, Janine M.; Molnar, Julia; Siomava, Natalia; Abdala, Virginia

ISBN 10: 1138571164 / ISBN 13: 9781138571167

Published by CRC Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Muscles of Chordates : Development, Homologies, and Evolution
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138571164
• ISBN 13: 9781138571167
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

Key Selling Features:

• 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.

About the Author

Rui Diogo, associate prof. Howard Univ. He was one of the youngest researchers to be nominated as fellow of the American Association of Anatomists, and he won several prestigious awards, being the only researcher selected for first and second places for best article of the year in the top anatomical journal, two times in just three years (2013/2015). Single author or coauthor of more than 100 papers in top journals as e.g. Nature and book chapters, coeditor of five books, sole or first author of 13 books, including one at medical schools worldwide, Learning and Understanding Human Anatomy and Pathology: An Evolutionary and Developmental Guide for Medical Students, and one often listed among best 10 books on evolutionary biology in 2017, Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior: A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches, and Trends.

Janine Ziermann, assistant prof. at Howard Univ. She won several awards, including the American Association of Anatomists (AAA) and the Keith and Marion Moore Young Anatomist's Publication Award (YAPA).

Julia Molnar is an assistant professor at New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine. She received a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the American Association of Anatomists and many illustration awards, including the Lazendorf Award, for paleontological illustration.

Natalia Siomava won a prestigious stipend from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to study in Germany where, at the age of 27, she obtained her PhD degree in developmental and evolutionary biology.

Virginia Abdala is an associate professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán and researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina. In addition to being the single author or coauthor of more than 85 papers and of numerous book chapters, she is the academic editor of two prestigious international journals known worldwide.