Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth - Crash Course Biology #17

2012-05-21

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Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship and to discover how those processes evolved. Also, fruit flies with eyes on their legs and chickens with teeth!

References:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/5/47

http://blog.hmns.org/?tag=evo-devo

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/what-evo-devo.html

http://www.hoxfulmonsters.com/2008/05/setting-the-stage-for-hox-genes/

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evodevo_05

http://lepdata.org/monteiro/Evo-devo%20pdfs/Halder_et_al_1995.pdf

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5230538

Table of Contents

1) EVO/DEVO - 00:51

2) Developmental Regulatory Genes - 2:00

3) Gap Genes - 2:39

4) Homeobox / HOX Genes - 2:50

5) Messed-Up Experiment - 6:16

6) EVO/DEVO & Evolution - 7:26

a) Chickens with teeth - 8:14

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