MorphoEvoDevo: A Multilevel Approach to Elucidate the Evolution of Metazoan Organ Systems

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19 October 2023

Editorial: MorphoEvoDevo: a multilevel approach to elucidate the evolution of metazoan organ systems

Andreas Wanninger

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Pedro Martinez

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Néva P. Meyer

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Andreas Wanninger

University of Vienna

Pedro Martinez

Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona

Neva P Meyer

Clark University

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Analyzing animal development in a comparative framework provides a unique window into evolutionary history. With a long tradition that dates back to iconic 19th-century zoologists such as Ernst Haeckel and Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Developmental Biology is firmly rooted in morphological research. While studies using a classical model system approach have resulted in considerable methodological progress, in particular by establishing molecular genetic tools to tackle questions surrounding animal development, it quickly became obvious that a broad comparative dataset involving as many taxa as possible is necessary for sound evolutionary inferences. Thus, today’s EvoDevo embraces morphological, molecular, and experimental procedures, interpreted in a phylogenetic framework, in order to answer key questions that revolve around the evolution of animal cell types, organ systems, and, ultimately, entire species.

In this Research Topic, we welcome contributions that use development as a key approach to better understand animal origins and the evolution of phenotypic diversity. Topics covered range from work describing the ontogeny of organ systems through analyses of gene expression patterns, cell type profiling, phylogeny, and questions related to the origin of multicellularity. This Research Topic is based on the session “MorphoEvoDevo” that will be held during the 5th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology in Vienna, Austria, from August 2nd-7th, 2020, organized by Néva Meyer and Andreas Wanninger. Contribution to this Topic, however, is neither restricted to participants of this symposium nor to research related to invertebrates – we gladly welcome manuscript submissions from the entire EvoDevo community.

We aim at a broad collection of research papers, review articles, and perspective papers that highlight the diversity of current research into animal EvoDevo and morphology using the entire spectrum of state-of-the-art-methods, such as high-end microscopy, imaging, in situ hybridization, functional and experimental genetics, phylogeny, transcriptomics, genomics, and others.

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Andreas Wanninger

University of Vienna

Pedro Martinez

Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona

Neva P Meyer

Clark University

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