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Wiktionary
- n. informal Abbreviation of evolutionary developmental biology.
Examples
“As I have noted before, the core findings of evo-devo were never predicted or anticipated by conventional evolutionary theory … here”
“Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) is the very fruitful study of the ways in which genetic differences direct the energy of cells to give rise to variations in developmental patterns.”
“That is how large groups of scientists are able to colaborate on very big experimental evo-devo projects which produce real science.”
“Carroll is a researcher in evolutionary consequences of developmental processes, or “evo-devo”, and a noted science writer.”
“Why my little comment about the evo-devo playbook?”
Developmental buffering, or how to live with your bad genes - The Panda's Thumb
“The minimal definition of macroevolution is “evolution above the species level”, but it has become a catchall term encompassing everything from speciation to lineage-diversification and extinction dynamics to “evolution of ‘higher taxa’” ack! go read “down with phyla!” to vaguely defined “large” amounts of change to evo-devo changes in development.”
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb
“Given the evo-devo focus, I suspect that the implied denominator is not coding loci, but rather coding, plus regulatory, plus potentially regulatory loci.”
Developmental buffering, or how to live with your bad genes - The Panda's Thumb
“Well, one concept championed by evo-devo thinkers is the notion of “evolvability.””
Developmental buffering, or how to live with your bad genes - The Panda's Thumb
“Used to lay out body plans, build beaks and alter fish jaws, BMP4 illustrates perfectly one of the major recurring themes of evo-devo.”
“Joy: … everything else was just fun with evo-devo and expression in ecological interplay.”
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mollusque Evolutionary developmental biology. Aug 30, 2008
edwardvielmetti Molecular biology (including the publication of the human genome) and the so-called evo-devo paradigm now permit us to establish new and often quite unexpected connections among very different species. (Seed Magazine) Oct 14, 2007