Integrative and Comparative Biology

Key Transitions in Animal Evolution

Get checked abstract Rob DeSalle and Bernd Schierwater

Key transitions in animal evolution
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 18, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 667-669; doi:10.1093/icb/icm042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract Bernd Schierwater and Rob DeSalle

Can we ever identify the Urmetazoan?
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 6, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 670-676; doi:10.1093/icb/icm040 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract Vicki Buchsbaum Pearse and Oliver Voigt

Field biology of placozoans (Trichoplax): distribution, diversity, biotic interactions
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 1, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 677-692; doi:10.1093/icb/icm015 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract Ferdinando Boero, Bernd Schierwater, and Stefano Piraino

Cnidarian milestones in metazoan evolution
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 1, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 693-700; doi:10.1093/icb/icm041 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract Eldon E. Ball, Danielle M. de Jong, Bernd Schierwater, Chuya Shinzato, David C. Hayward, and David J. Miller

Implications of cnidarian gene expression patterns for the origins of bilaterality—is the glass half full or half empty?
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 9, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 701-711; doi:10.1093/icb/icm028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract Dave K. Jacobs, Nagayasu Nakanishi, David Yuan, Anthony Camara, Scott A. Nichols, and Volker Hartenstein

Evolution of sensory structures in basal metazoa
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on September 27, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 712-723; doi:10.1093/icb/icm094 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract Neil W. Blackstone

A food's-eye view of the transition from basal metazoans to bilaterians
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 1, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 724-733; doi:10.1093/icb/icm056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract Dennis V. Lavrov

Key transitions in animal evolution: a mitochondrial DNA perspective
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 13, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 734-743; doi:10.1093/icb/icm045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract Paulyn Cartwright and Allen Collins

Fossils and phylogenies: integrating multiple lines of evidence to investigate the origin of early major metazoan lineages
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 20, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 744-751; doi:10.1093/icb/icm071 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract Eva Jiménez-Guri, Beth Okamura, and Peter W. H. Holland

Origin and evolution of a myxozoan worm
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 752-758; doi:10.1093/icb/icm026 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract David C. Plachetzki and Todd H. Oakley

Key transitions during the evolution of animal phototransduction: novelty, "tree-thinking," co-option, and co-duplication
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 22, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 759-769; doi:10.1093/icb/icm050 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Get checked abstract Cassandra G. M. Extavour

Evolution of the bilaterian germ line: lineage origin and modulation of specification mechanisms
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on May 22, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 770-785; doi:10.1093/icb/icm027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Thorvald Holmes

The Natural History of Weasels and Stoats: Ecology, Behavior and Management, Second Edition. Carolyn M. King and Roger A. Powell.
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on May 24, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 786; doi:10.1093/icb/icm002 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul B. Hamel

Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World. Eugene M. McCarthy.
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 19, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 786-787; doi:10.1093/icb/icm005 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pat Hutchings

Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Annelida • Volume edited by Greg Rouse and Fredrik Pleijel Series edited by Barrie G.M. Jamieson.
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 18, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 788-789; doi:10.1093/icb/icm008 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rakesh K. Rastogi

Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Gymnophiona (Caecilians). Jean-Marie Exbrayat, editor.
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 1, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 789-790; doi:10.1093/icb/icm009 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Gochfeld

Extinction & Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds. David W. Steadman.
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on July 7, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 790-793; doi:10.1093/icb/icm013 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Walter J. Bock

Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Birds: Phylogeny, Morphology, Hormones, Fertilization (Volume 6A of Series). Barrie G. M. Jamieson, editor. • Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Birds: Sexual Selection, Behavior, Conservation, Embryology and Genetics (Volume 6B of Series). Barrie G. M. Jamieson, editor.
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on August 13, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 793-794; doi:10.1093/icb/icm060 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jane L. Lubischer

The Cell Cycle, Principles of Control. David O. Morgan.
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 22, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 794-795; doi:10.1093/icb/icm066 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wayne C. Starnes

Reproductive Biology and Early Life History of Fishes in the Ohio River Drainage: Aphredoderidae through Cottidae, Moronidae, and Sciaenidae, Volume 5. Robert Wallus and Thomas P. Simon, editors.
Integrative and Comparative Biology Advance Access published on June 27, 2007
Integr. Comp. Biol. 2007 47: 795-798; doi:10.1093/icb/icm067 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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