Environmental Oxygen is a Key Modulator of Development and Evolution: From Molecules to Ecology: Oxygen-sensitive pathways pattern the developing organism, linking genetic and environmental components during the evolution of new traits.

Abstract excerpt

Oxygen is a key regulator of both development and homeostasis and a promising candidate to bridge the influence of the environment and the evolution of new traits. To clarify the various ways in which oxygen may modulate embryogenesis, its effects are reviewed at distinct organizational levels. First, the role of pathways that sense dioxygen levels and reactive oxygen species are reviewed. Then, the effects of...

Topics

• Biological Evolution
• Ecology
• Extremities
• Oxygen
• Phenotype
• Reactive Oxygen Species