Moczek A P
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 2009;74:289-96. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2009.74.010. Epub 2009 Aug 28.
The origin of novel features continues to represent a major frontier in evolutionary biology. What are the genetic, developmental, and ecological processes that mediate not just the modification of preexisting traits, but the origin of novel traits that lack obvious homology with other structures? In this chapter, I highlight a class of traits and organisms that are emerging as new models for exploring the mechanisms of innovation and diversification in nature: beetle horns and horned beetles. Here, I review recent significant findings and their contributions to current frontiers in evolutionary developmental biology.
新特征的起源一直是进化生物学的一个主要前沿领域。介导不仅是现有性状的修饰，而且是与其他结构缺乏明显同源性的新性状起源的遗传、发育和生态过程是什么？在本章中，我重点介绍了一类正在成为探索自然界创新和多样化机制的新模型的性状和生物体：甲虫角和有角甲虫。在这里，我回顾了最近的重要发现及其对进化发育生物学当前前沿领域的贡献。
