Development and
Evolution of Amniote Integuments
(link to Wiley website: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/102521318)
Guest editor: Dr.
Cheng-Ming Chuong and Dr. Dominique G. Homberger
A
special issue of Journal
of Experimental Zoology / Molecular and Developmental Evolution
(chief
editor Dr. Gunter Wagner). Volume
298B, Published:
August, 2003, Wiley-Liss,
Inc,
Development
and evolution of the amniote integument: Current landscape and future horizon (p 1-11)
Cheng-Ming Chuong, Dominique G. Homberger
Adaptation
to the land: The skin of reptiles in comparison to that of amphibians and
endotherm amniotes (p 12-41) Lorenzo
Alibardi
Adaptation
to the sky: Defining the feather with integument fossils from mesozoic China and
experimental evidence from molecular laboratories (p 42-56)
Cheng-Ming Chuong, Ping Wu, Fu-Cheng Zhang, Xing Xu, Minke Yu, Randall B.
Widelitz, Ting-Xin Jiang, Lianhai Hou
Avian
skin development and the evolutionary origin of feathers (p 57-72)
Roger H. Sawyer, Loren W. Knapp
A
hierarchical model of plumage: Morphology, development, and evolution (p 73-90)
Richard O. Prum, Jan Dyck
Variations
in the morphology, distribution, and arrangement of feathers in
domesticated birds (p 91-108)
Thomas Bartels
Molecular
biology of feather morphogenesis: A testable model for evo-devo research (p 109-122)
Randall B. Widelitz, Ting Xin Jiang, Mingke Yu, Ted Shen, Jen-Yee Shen, Ping Wu,
Zhicao Yu, Cheng-Ming Chuong
The
role of mechanical forces on the patterning of the avian feather-bearing skin: A
biomechanical analysis of the integumentary musculature in birds (p 123-139)
Dominique G. Homberger, Kumudini N. de Silva
Horse
hooves and bird feathers: Two model systems for studying the structure and
development of highly adapted integumentary accessory organs - the role of the
dermo-epidermal interface for the micro-architecture of complex epidermal
structures (p 140-151) Hermann
Bragulla, Ruth M. Hirschberg
Evolution
and development of mammalian limb integumentary structures (p 152-163)
Mark W. Hamrick
Molecular
biology of hair morphogenesis: Development and cycling (p 164-180)
Vladimir A. Botchkarev, Ralf Paus