• DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2008.06.030
Corpus ID: 2513041

Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis: A Genetic Theory of Morphological Evolution

@article{Carroll2008EvoDevoAA,
  title={Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis: A Genetic Theory of Morphological Evolution},
  author={S. Carroll},
  journal={Cell},
  year={2008},
  volume={134},
  pages={25-36}
}

S. Carroll

Published 2008

Biology, Medicine

Cell

Biologists have long sought to understand which genes and what kinds of changes in their sequences are responsible for the evolution of morphological diversity. Here, I outline eight principles derived from molecular and evolutionary developmental biology and review recent studies of species divergence that have led to a genetic theory of morphological evolution, which states that (1) form evolves largely by altering the expression of functionally conserved proteins, and (2) such changes… CONTINUE READING

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