title: Comparative embryology without a microscope: using genomic approaches to understand the evolution of development.
abstract: Until recently, understanding developmental conservation and change has relied on embryological comparisons and analyses of single genes. Several studies, including one recently published in BMC Biology, have now taken a genomic approach to this classical problem, providing insights into how selection operates differentially across the life cycle.
authors: Biology Department and Institute for Genome Science & Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. dag23@duke.edu
authors: David A
authors: DA
authors: Garfield
authors: Gregory A
authors: GA
authors: Wray
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D047108:Embryonic Development / Q000235:genetics*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D016678:Genome; D006801:Humans; D013045:Species Specificity