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Key Transitions in Animal Evolution 2010

1. Front Cover

2. Introduction

3. Contents

4. Section 1. Tangled Roots in the Animal Tree of Life

5. Chapter 1. Putting Animals in their Place within a Context of Eukaryotic Innovations

6. Chapter 2. Elucidating Animal Phylogeny: Advances in Knowledge and Forthcoming Challenges

7. Chapter 3. Key Transitions in Animal Evolution: a Mitochondrial DNA Perspective

8. Chapter 4. Pending Issues in Development and Phylogeny of Arthropods

9. Chapter 5. The Pre-Nervous System and Beyond—Poriferan Milestones in the Early Evolution of the Metazoan Nervous System*

10. Chapter 6. A Key Innovation in Animal Evolution, the Emergence of Neurogenesis: Cellular and Molecular Cues from Cnidarian Nervous Systems

11. Chapter 7. From Cnidaria to “Higher Metazoa” in One Step

12. Chapter 8. Basal Metazoan Sensory Evolution

13. Chapter 9. Cnidarian Gene Expression Patterns and the Origins of Bilaterality—Are Cnidarians Reading the same Game Plan as “Higher” Animals?

14. Chapter 10. Key Transitions During Animal Phototransduction Evolution: Co-duplication as a Null Hypothesis for the Evolutionary Origins of Novel Traits

15. Chapter 11. Vertebrate Hox Genes and Specializations in Mammals

16. Chapter 12. Field Biology of Placozoans (Trichoplax): Distribution, Diversity, Biotic Interactions

17. Chapter 13. Trichoplax and Placozoa: One of the Crucial Keys to Understanding Metazoan Evolution

18. Chapter 14. A Food’s-Eye View of Animal Transitions

19. Chapter 15. Lost in Transition: The Biogeochemical Context of Animal Origins

20. Chapter 16. Redefi ning Stem Cells and Assembling Germ Plasm: Key Transitions in the Evolution of the Germ Line

21. Questions and Discussion

22. Back Cover