Fins into Limbs

Introduction

Brian K. Hall

Part I. Evolution

1. Fins and Limbs and Fins into Limbs: The Historical Context, 1840–1940

Peter J. Bowler

2. Skeletal Changes in the Transition from Fins to Limbs

Michael I. Coates and Marcello Ruta

3. A Historical Perspective on the Study of Animal Locomotion with Fins and Limbs

Eliot G. Drucker and Adam P. Summers

4. Fins and Limbs in the Study of Evolutionary Novelties

Gunter P. Wagner and Hans C. E. Larsson

Part II. Development

5. The Development of Fins and Limbs

Mikiko Tanaka and Cheryl Tickle

6. Mechanisms of Chondrogenesis and Osteogenesis in Fins

P. Eckhard Witten and Ann Huysseune

7. Mechanisms of Chondrogenesis and Osteogenesis in Limbs

Scott D. Weatherbee and Lee A. Niswander

8. Apoptosis in Fin and Limb Development

Vanessa Zuzarte-Luís and Juan M. Hurlé

9. Joint Formation

Charles W. Archer, Gary P. Dowthwaite, and Philippa Francis-West

10. Postnatal Growth of Fins and Limbs through Endochondral Ossification

Cornelia E. Farnum

11. Paired Fin Repair and Regeneration

Marie-Andrée Akimenko and Amanda Smith

12. Tetrapod Limb Regeneration

David M. Gardiner and Susan V. Bryant

Part III. Transformation

13. Evolution of the Appendicular Skeleton of Amphibians

Robert L. Carroll and Robert B. Holmes

14. Limb Diversity and Digit Reduction in Reptilian Evolution

Michael D. Shapiro, Neil H. Shubin, and Jason P. Downs

15. Limbs in Mammalian Evolution

P. David Polly

16. Skeletal Adaptations for Flight

Stephen M. Gatesy and Kevin M. Middleton

17. Adaptations for Digging and Burrowing

Nathan J. Kley and Maureen Kearney

18. Aquatic Adaptations in the Limbs of Amniotes

J. G. M. Thewissen and Michael A. Taylor

19. Sesamoids and Ossicles in the Appendicular Skeleton

Matthew K. Vickaryous and Wendy M. Olson

References

Contributors

Index