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Agential autonomy and biological individuality 代理自主性和生物个体性。

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Evolution & Development Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12450

Fermin C. Fulda

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The agential perspective: Countermapping the modern synthesis 代理视角:对抗现代综合。

IF 2.9 3区生物学

Evolution & Development Pub Date : 2023-06-14 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12448

Denis M. Walsh, Gregory Rupik

{"title":"The agential perspective: Countermapping the modern synthesis","authors":"Denis M. Walsh, Gregory Rupik","doi":"10.1111/ede.12448","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ede.12448","url":null,"abstract":"We compare and contrast two theoretical perspectives on adaptive evolution—the orthodox Modern Synthesis perspective, and the nascent Agential Perspective. To do so, we develop the idea from Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther of a ‘countermap’, as a means for comparing the respective ontologies of different scientific perspectives. We conclude that the modern Synthesis perspective achieves an impressively comprehensive view of a universal set of dynamical properties of populations, but at the considerable cost of radically distorting the nature of the biological processes that contribute to evolution. For its part, the Agential Perspective offers the prospect of representing the biological processes of evolution with much greater fidelity, but at the expense of generality. Trade-offs of this sort are endemic to science, and inevitable. Recognizing them helps us to avoid the pitfalls of ‘illicit reification’, i.e. the mistake of interpreting a feature of a scientific perspective as a feature of the non-perspectival world. We argue that much of the traditional Modern Synthesis representation of the biology of evolution commits this illicit reification.","PeriodicalId":12083,"journal":{"name":"Evolution & Development","volume":"25 6","pages":"335-352"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ede.12448","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9636655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

A data-driven framework to model the organism–environment system 一个数据驱动的框架，用于对生物-环境系统进行建模。

IF 2.9 3区生物学

Evolution & Development Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12449

Lisandro Milocco, Tobias Uller

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引用次数: 2

Testing heterochrony: Connecting skull shape ontogeny and evolution of feeding adaptations in baleen whales 测试异时性:连接须鲸颅骨形状个体发育和进化的摄食适应

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Evolution & Development Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12447

Agnese Lanzetti, Roberto Portela-Miguez, Vincent Fernandez, Anjali Goswami

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Agency in Reproduction 生殖中的代理。

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Evolution & Development Pub Date : 2023-05-26 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12440

Laura Nuño de la Rosa

{"title":"Agency in Reproduction","authors":"Laura Nuño de la Rosa","doi":"10.1111/ede.12440","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ede.12440","url":null,"abstract":"While niche construction theory and developmental approaches to evolution have brought to the front the active role of organisms as ecological and developmental agents, respectively, the role of agents in reproduction has been widely neglected by organismal perspectives of evolution. This paper addresses this problem by proposing an agential view of reproduction and shows that such a perspective has implications for the explanation of the origin of modes of reproduction, the evolvability of reproductive modes, and the coevolution between reproduction and social behavior. After introducing the two prevalent views of agency in evolutionary biology, namely those of organismal agency and selective agency, I contrast these two perspectives as applied to the evolution of animal reproduction. Taking eutherian pregnancy as a case study, I wonder whether organismal approaches to agency forged in the frame of niche construction and developmental plasticity theories can account for the goal-directed activities involved in reproductive processes. I conclude that the agential role of organisms in reproduction is irreducible to developmental and ecological agency, and that reproductive goals need to be included into our definitions of organismal agency. I then explore the evolutionary consequences of endorsing an agential approach to reproduction, showing how such an approach might illuminate our understanding of the evolutionary origination and developmental evolvability of reproductive modes. Finally, I analyze recent studies on the coevolution between viviparity and social behavior in vertebrates to suggest that an agential notion of reproduction can provide unforeseen links between developmental and ecological agency.","PeriodicalId":12083,"journal":{"name":"Evolution & Development","volume":"25 6","pages":"418-429"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ede.12440","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9517273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Collective behavior in relation with changing environments: Dynamics, modularity, and agency 与变化环境相关的集体行为:动力学、模块化和代理。

IF 2.9 3区生物学

Evolution & Development Pub Date : 2023-05-15 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12439

Deborah M. Gordon

{"title":"Collective behavior in relation with changing environments: Dynamics, modularity, and agency","authors":"Deborah M. Gordon","doi":"10.1111/ede.12439","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ede.12439","url":null,"abstract":"Collective behavior operates without central control, using local interactions among participants to adjust to changing conditions. Many natural systems operate collectively, and by specifying what objectives are met by the system, the idea of agency helps to describe how collective behavior is embedded in the conditions it deals with. Ant colonies function collectively, and the enormous diversity of more than 15K species of ants, in different habitats, provides opportunities to look for general ecological patterns in how collective behavior operates. The foraging behavior of harvester ants in the desert regulates activity to manage water loss, while the trail networks of turtle ants in the canopy tropical forest respond to rapidly changing resources and vegetation. These examples illustrate some broad correspondences in natural systems between the dynamics of collective behavior and the dynamics of the surroundings. To outline how interactions among participants, acting in relation with changing surroundings, achieve collective outcomes, I focus on three aspects of collective behavior: the rate at which interactions adjust to conditions, the feedback regime that stimulates and inhibits activity, and the modularity of the network of interactions. To characterize the dynamics of the surroundings, I consider gradients in stability, energy flow, and the distribution of resources and demands. I then propose some hypotheses that link how collective behavior operates with changing environments.","PeriodicalId":12083,"journal":{"name":"Evolution & Development","volume":"25 6","pages":"430-438"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9469249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Issue information – TOC & Editorial and Subscription Page 发行信息- TOC &编辑和订阅页

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Evolution & Development Pub Date : 2023-05-14 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12405

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Direct observation of the evolution of cell-type-specific microRNA expression signatures supports the hematopoietic origin model of endothelial cells 直接观察细胞类型特异性microRNA表达特征的进化支持内皮细胞造血起源模型

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Evolution & Development Pub Date : 2023-05-08 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12438

Ana E. Jenike, Katharine M. Jenike, Kevin J. Peterson, Bastian Fromm, Marc K. Halushka

{"title":"Direct observation of the evolution of cell-type-specific microRNA expression signatures supports the hematopoietic origin model of endothelial cells","authors":"Ana E. Jenike, Katharine M. Jenike, Kevin J. Peterson, Bastian Fromm, Marc K. Halushka","doi":"10.1111/ede.12438","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ede.12438","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of specialized cell-types is a long-standing interest of biologists, but given the deep time-scales very difficult to reconstruct or observe. microRNAs have been linked to the evolution of cellular complexity and may inform on specialization. The endothelium is a vertebrate-specific specialization of the circulatory system that enabled a critical new level of vasoregulation. The evolutionary origin of these endothelial cells is unclear. We hypothesized that Mir-126, an endothelial cell-specific microRNA may be informative. We here reconstruct the evolutionary history of Mir-126. Mir-126 likely appeared in the last common ancestor of vertebrates and tunicates, which was a species without an endothelium, within an intron of the evolutionary much older EGF Like Domain Multiple (Egfl) locus. Mir-126 has a complex evolutionary history due to duplications and losses of both the host gene and the microRNA. Taking advantage of the strong evolutionary conservation of the microRNA among Olfactores, and using RNA in situ hybridization, we localized Mir-126 in the tunicate Ciona robusta. We found exclusive expression of the mature Mir-126 in granular amebocytes, supporting a long-proposed scenario that endothelial cells arose from hemoblasts, a type of proto-endothelial amoebocyte found throughout invertebrates. This observed change of expression of Mir-126 from proto-endothelial amoebocytes in the tunicate to endothelial cells in vertebrates is the first direct observation of the evolution of a cell-type in relation to microRNA expression indicating that microRNAs can be a prerequisite of cell-type evolution.","PeriodicalId":12083,"journal":{"name":"Evolution & Development","volume":"25 3","pages":"226-239"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ede.12438","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9760673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Phoronida—A small clade with a big role in understanding the evolution of lophophorates 噬菌目--一个小支系，但在了解噬孔动物的进化过程中发挥着重要作用。

IF 2.6 3区生物学

Evolution & Development Pub Date : 2023-04-29 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12437

Ludwik Gąsiorowski

{"title":"Phoronida—A small clade with a big role in understanding the evolution of lophophorates","authors":"Ludwik Gąsiorowski","doi":"10.1111/ede.12437","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ede.12437","url":null,"abstract":"Phoronids, together with brachiopods and bryozoans, form the animal clade Lophophorata. Modern lophophorates are quite diverse—some can biomineralize while others are soft-bodied, they could be either solitary or colonial, and they develop through various eccentric larval stages that undergo different types of metamorphoses. The diversity of this clade is further enriched by numerous extinct fossil lineages with their own distinct body plans and life histories. In this review, I discuss how data on phoronid development, genetics, and morphology can inform our understanding of lophophorate evolution. The actinotrocha larvae of phoronids is a well documented example of intercalation of the new larval body plan, which can be used to study how new life stages emerge in animals with biphasic life cycle. The genomic and embryonic data from phoronids, in concert with studies of the fossil lophophorates, allow the more precise reconstruction of the evolution of lophophorate biomineralization. Finally, the regenerative and asexual abilities of phoronids can shed new light on the evolution of coloniality in lophophorates. As evident from those examples, Phoronida occupies a central role in the discussion of the evolution of lophophorate body plans and life histories.","PeriodicalId":12083,"journal":{"name":"Evolution & Development","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ede.12437","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9360986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Toward a universal measure of robustness across model organs and systems 对整个模型器官和系统的稳健性的普遍测量。

IF 2.9 3区生物学

Evolution & Development Pub Date : 2023-04-18 DOI: 10.1111/ede.12436

Jukka Jernvall, Nicolas Di-Poï, Marja L. Mikkola, Claudius F. Kratochwil

{"title":"Toward a universal measure of robustness across model organs and systems","authors":"Jukka Jernvall, Nicolas Di-Poï, Marja L. Mikkola, Claudius F. Kratochwil","doi":"10.1111/ede.12436","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ede.12436","url":null,"abstract":"The development of an individual must be capable of resisting the harmful effects of internal and external perturbations. This capacity, called robustness, can make the difference between normal variation and disease. Some systems and organs are more resilient in their capacity to correct the effects of internal disturbances such as mutations. Similarly, organs and organisms differ in their capacity to be resilient against external disturbances, such as changes in temperature. Furthermore, all developmental systems must be somewhat flexible to permit evolutionary change, and understanding robustness requires a comparative framework. Over the last decades, most research on developmental robustness has been focusing on specific model systems and organs. Hence, we lack tools that would allow cross-species and cross-organ comparisons. Here, we emphasize the need for a uniform framework to experimentally test and quantify robustness across study systems and suggest that the analysis of fluctuating asymmetry might be a powerful proxy to do so. Such a comparative framework will ultimately help to resolve why and how organs of the same and different species differ in their sensitivity to internal (e.g., mutations) and external (e.g., temperature) perturbations and at what level of biological organization buffering capacities exist and therefore create robustness of the developmental system.","PeriodicalId":12083,"journal":{"name":"Evolution & Development","volume":"25 6","pages":"410-417"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ede.12436","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9687995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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