Two-way exchanges between animal and plant biology, with focus on evo-devo

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作者
Minelli, Alessandro [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Padua, Dept Biol, Padua, Italy
来源
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION | 2022年 / 10卷
关键词
developmental biology journals; Dictyostelium; evolutionary biology journals; history of biology; hourglass model; paramorphism; saltational evolution; Volvox; CYTOPLASMIC BRIDGE SYSTEM; SALTATIONAL EVOLUTION; DICTYOSTELIUM-DISCOIDEUM; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; FLOWERING PLANTS; HOPEFUL MONSTERS; VASCULAR PLANTS; CELL BIOLOGY;
D O I
10.3389/fevo.2022.1057355
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
By definition, biology is the science of all living beings. However, horizons restricted to either plants or animals have characterized the development of life sciences well beyond the emergence of unified perspectives applying to all forms of life, such as the cell theory or the theory of evolution. Separation between botanical and zoological traditions is not destined to go extinct easily, or shortly. Disciplinary isolation is emphasized by institutional contexts such as scientific societies and their congresses, specialist journals, disciplines recognized as teaching subjects and legitimate and fundable research fields. By shaping the personal agendas of individual scientists, this has a strong impact on the development of biology. In some fields, botanical and zoological contributions have long being effectively intertwined, but in many others plant and animal biology have failed to progress beyond a marginal dialogue. Characteristically, the so-called "general biology" and the philosophy of biology are still zoocentric (and often vertebrato- or even anthropocentric). In this article, I discuss legitimacy and fruitfulness of some old lexical and conceptual exchanges between the two traditions (cell, tissue, and embryo). Finally, moving to recent developments, I compare the contributions of plant vs. animal biology to the establishment of evolutionary developmental biology. We cannot expect that stronger integration between the different strands of life sciences will soon emerge by self-organization, but highlighting this persisting imbalance between plant and animal biology will arguably foster progress.
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