A5088164187- Philosophy and History of Science
- Plant and animal studies
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Science and Climate Studies
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Hemiptera Insect Studies
- Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Evolution and Science Education
- History of Science and Medicine
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Entomological Studies and Ecology
- Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- dental development and anomalies
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Australian Indigenous Culture and History
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
Tufts University
2020-2022
Duke University
2013-2018
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
2018
University of Copenhagen
2015-2017
National Museum of Natural History
2015
Smithsonian Institution
2015
University of Cambridge
2011
Abstract Large‐scale patterns of correlated growth in development are partially driven by competition for metabolic and informational resources. It is argued that between organs limited resources an important mesoscale morphogenetic mechanism produces fitness‐enhancing growth. At the genetic level, individual characters appears independent, or “modular,” because expression transcription often highly localized, mutations have trait‐specific effects, gene complexes can be co‐opted as a unit to...
Differences within a biological system are ubiquitous, creating variation in nature. Variation underlies all evolutionary processes and allows persistence resilience changing environments; thus, uncovering the drivers of is critical. The growing recognition that central to biology presents timely opportunity for determining unifying principles drive across levels organization. Currently, most studies consider focused at single level not integrated into broader perspective. Here we explain...
The nymphalid groundplan allows for the identification of homologous characters across species, making this archetype an invaluable tool research on development and evolutionary diversification butterfly wing patterns. However, whether applies to moths remains unknown. To better understand domain applicability groundplan, we attempted identify elements in dorsal forewing patterns hyper-variable arctiid moth Utetheisa ornatrix. Using trait correlation analyses, located homologues such as...
The nymphalid groundplan (NGP) has proven to be extraordinarily useful in the study of butterfly color patterns because it allows for identification homologous elements across species. It long been thought that NGP is broadly applicable all Lepidoptera, implying characters which make-up are those found moths. However, this conjecture remains mostly untested. We analyzed wing hyper-diverse arctiid tiger moths, represented worldwide by approximately 11,000 species, and these animals can parsed...
Charles Darwin's contemporaries repeatedly criticized him for advocating a theory that was unsupported by the geological record. It is well known Darwin responded to these criticisms attributing absence of transitional forms fact record incomplete. Often overlooked, however, he seemed hold out some hope fossilized might eventually be uncovered. Several form candidates including famous London Archaeopteryx were discovered after Origin first published, but specimens are scarcely mentioned in...
An ambitious attempt to show that human culture evolves from the bottom up falls flat
The exquisite morphology of a complex body results from the sum competitive and cooperative interactions among its subsystems. More details can be found in article number 1900245 by Richard Gawne et al. cover image shows immunohistochemical staining (in red) head tadpole Xenopus laevis, showing brain, nostrils, peripheral innervation.