PUBLICATION
Biodiversity-based development and evolution: the emerging research systems in model and non-model organisms
- Authors
- Zhao, L., Gao, F., Gao, S., Liang, Y., Long, H., Lv, Z., Su, Y., Ye, N., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Wang, X., Song, W., Zhang, S., Dong, B.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-210428-4
- Date
- 2021
- Source
- Science China. Life sciences 64(8): 1236-1280 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Su, Ying, Zhao, Long
- Keywords
- Evo-Devo, biodiversity, environmental adaptation, epigenetic, mutation, regeneration
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Biodiversity*
- Biological Evolution*
- Developmental Biology*
- Genomics
- Models, Animal*
- PubMed
- 33893979 Full text @ Sci. China Ser. C-Life Sci.
Citation
Zhao, L., Gao, F., Gao, S., Liang, Y., Long, H., Lv, Z., Su, Y., Ye, N., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Wang, X., Song, W., Zhang, S., Dong, B. (2021) Biodiversity-based development and evolution: the emerging research systems in model and non-model organisms. Science China. Life sciences. 64(8):1236-1280.
Abstract
Evolutionary developmental biology, or Evo-Devo for short, has become an established field that, broadly speaking, seeks to understand how changes in development drive major transitions and innovation in organismal evolution. It does so via integrating the principles and methods of many subdisciplines of biology. Although we have gained unprecedented knowledge from the studies on model organisms in the past decades, many fundamental and crucially essential processes remain a mystery. Considering the tremendous biodiversity of our planet, the current model organisms seem insufficient for us to understand the evolutionary and physiological processes of life and its adaptation to exterior environments. The currently increasing genomic data and the recently available gene-editing tools make it possible to extend our studies to non-model organisms. In this review, we review the recent work on the regulatory signaling of developmental and regeneration processes, environmental adaptation, and evolutionary mechanisms using both the existing model animals such as zebrafish and Drosophila, and the emerging nonstandard model organisms including amphioxus, ascidian, ciliates, single-celled phytoplankton, and marine nematode. In addition, the challenging questions and new directions in these systems are outlined as well.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping