Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published online on June 6, 2006
Integrative and Comparative Biology, doi:10.1093/icb/icl004
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C. D. Bishop 1,
D. F. Erezyilmaz 2,
T. Flatt 3,
C. D. Georgiou 4,
M. G. Hadfield 1,
A. Heyland 5,
J. Hodin 6,
M. W. Jacobs 7,
S. A. Maslakova 8,
A. Pires 9,
A. M. Reitzel 10,
S. Santagata 11,
K. Tanaka 2,
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J. H. Youson 12
Synopsis Metamorphosis (Gr. meta- "change" + morphe "form") as a biological process is generally attributed to a subset of animals: most famously insects and amphibians, but some fish and many marine invertebrates as well. We held a symposium at the 2006 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) annual meeting in Orlando, FL (USA) to discuss metamorphosis in a comparative context. Specifically, we considered the possibility that the term "metamorphosis" could be rightly applied to non-animals as well, including fungi, flowering plants, and some marine algae. Clearly, the answer depends upon how metamorphosis is defined. As we participants differed (sometimes quite substantially) in how we defined the term, we decided to present each of our conceptions of metamorphosis in 1 place, rather than attempting to agree on a single consensus definition. Herein we have gathered together our various definitions of metamorphosis, and offer an analysis that highlights some of the main similarities and differences among them. We present this article not only as an introduction to this symposium volume, but also as a reference tool that can be used by others interested in metamorphosis. Ultimately, we hope that this article--and the volume as a whole--will represent a springboard for further investigations into the surprisingly deep mechanistic similarities among independently evolved life cycle transitions across kingdoms. From the symposium "Metamorphosis: A Multikingdom Approach" presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, January 4-8, 2006, at Orlando, Florida. All authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically by surname.
Metamorphosis: A Multikingdom Approach
What is metamorphosis?
1 Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
2 Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
4 Biology Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
5 Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of Florida, St Augustine, FL, USA; Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA, USA
6 Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
7 Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA, USA
8 Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA, USA
9 Department of Biology, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA
10 Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
11 Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA, USA; Smithsonian Marine Station, Fort Pierce, FL, USA
12 Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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