Research Catalog

Title

From epigenesis to epigenetics : the genome in context / edited by Linda Van Speybroeck, Gertrudis Van de Vijver, and Dani De Waele.

Publication

New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Speybroeck, Linda van.
• Vijver, Gertrudis van de.
• Waele, Dani de.

Description

x, 237 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 981

Uniform Title

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 981.

Subjects

• Evolution, Molecular
• Epigenesis > Congresses
• Evolutionary genetics > Congresses
• Cell Differentiation > genetics
• Developmental genetics > Congresses
• Gene expression > Congresses

Note

• The result of a conference held on Nov. 25-28, 2001 in Ghent, Belgium.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Epigenetics: a challenge for genetics, evolution, and development? / by Gertrudis van de Vijver, Linda van Speybroeck, and Dani de Waele -- Theories in early embryology: close connections between epigenesis, preformationism, and self-organization / by Linda van Speybroeck, Dani de Waele, and Gertrudis van de Vijver -- The relations between genetics and epigenetics: a historical point of view / by Michel Morange -- From epigenesis to epigenetics: the case of C.H. Waddington / by Linda van Speybroeck -- The changing concept of epigenetics / by Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb -- What is "epi" about epigenetics? / by James Griesemer -- Genome organization and reorganization in evolution: formatting for computation and function / by James A. Shapiro -- Alternative epigenetic states understood in terms of specific regulatory structures / by Denis Thieffry and Lucas Sánchez -- On the roles of repetitive DNA elements in the context of a unified genomic-epigenetic system / by Richard V. Sternberg -- Developmental robustness / by Evelyn Fox Keller -- The genome in its ecological context: philosophical perspectives on interspecies epigenesis / by Scott F. Gilbert -- From representational preformationism to the epigenesis of openness to the world? Reflections on a new vision of the organism / by Lenny Moss.

ISBN

• 1573314242 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1573314250 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002153481

OCLC

• ocm51009594
• SCSB-4329501

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries