BIOL4397 - Evolution of Development

 Lecture 25 - Convergent Evolution

Slides [pdf]

Required Reading

  • Gompel N & Carroll SB (2003) Genetic mechanisms and constraints governing the evolution of correlated traits in drosophilid flies. Nature 424: 931-5. [pdf]

Recommended Reading
  • Sucena E, et al (2003) Regulatory evolution of shavenbaby/ovo underlies multiple cases of morphological parallelism. Nature 424: 935-8. [pdf]

  • Wray GA (2002) Do convergent developmental mechanisms underlie convergent phenotypes. Brain Behav. Evol. 59: 327-336. [pdf]