Wilson Laura A B, Werneburg Ingmar
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia.
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2014 Dec;322(8):555-7. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22603.
Keeping pace with the forward progression of evolutionary developmental studies and their trajectory toward ever-more integrative and broad-scale study presents a challenge for researchers from diverse disciplines. Increasing the capacity for discourse and opening opportunity to further interdisciplinary work is highly desirable, and one way that activities can be hindered is through a lack of communication between those developing new methods and those applying methods to new data sets. The goal of this special issue, which brings together contributions from a recent symposium at the 10(th) International Congress for Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM 10, Barcelona, July 2013) along with select additions, was to integrate methodological developments with molecular and morphological data to present a broad spectrum of avenues for investigating ontogeny in land vertebrates. A balance between methods-focused papers and papers presenting novel data and perspectives from molecular and morphological approaches in evo-devo was sought with the hope of promoting greater interchange between each side, and drawing attention to new opportunities for future research on non-model organisms.
跟上进化发育研究的前沿进展及其朝着更加综合和广泛的研究方向发展的轨迹，对来自不同学科的研究人员来说是一项挑战。提高交流能力并为进一步的跨学科工作创造机会是非常必要的，而阻碍活动开展的一个因素可能是新方法开发者与将方法应用于新数据集的人员之间缺乏沟通。本期特刊的目标是将方法学进展与分子和形态学数据相结合，展示研究陆地脊椎动物个体发育的广泛途径。该特刊汇集了2013年7月在巴塞罗那举行的第10届国际脊椎动物形态学大会（ICVM 10）上一次近期研讨会的论文以及精选的其他论文。我们力求在侧重于方法的论文与展示进化发育生物学中分子和形态学方法的新数据及观点的论文之间取得平衡，希望促进双方之间更多的交流，并引起人们对非模式生物未来研究新机会的关注。
