Eco-evo-devo: an emergent integrative discipline of biology
Eco-evo-devo (ecological evolutionary developmental biology) has emerged as a highly active field of research, aiming to understand how environmental cues, developmental mechanisms, and evolutionary processes interact to shape phenotypes, morphogenetic patterns, life histories, and biodiversity acro...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/421871 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/421871 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Evo-devo (evolution and development) Developmental and physiological plasticity Holobiont Evolutionary synthesis Theory of biology Developmental bias Life-history Multi-scale causation |
| Sumario: | Eco-evo-devo (ecological evolutionary developmental biology) has emerged as a highly active field of research, aiming to understand how environmental cues, developmental mechanisms, and evolutionary processes interact to shape phenotypes, morphogenetic patterns, life histories, and biodiversity across multiple scales. Rather than serving as a loose aggregation of diverse research topics and subfields, eco-evo-devo seeks to provide a coherent conceptual framework for exploring causal relationships among developmental, ecological, and evolutionary levels (Figure 1). By doing so, it aspires to be more than the sum of its parts, contributing to the development of a simpler, more elegant, and heuristically powerful biological theory. To illustrate how this integrative approach is taking shape, this Research Topic brings together nine contributions—including empirical studies, conceptual reviews, and opinion pieces, and covering a diverse array of organisms, methodologies and perspectives—that collectively highlight the promise and potential of this emerging discipline. |
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