Pere Alberch (1954–1998)

  1. Etxeberria, Arantza
  2. Nuño de la Rosa, Laura
Livre:
Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Éditorial: Springer

ISBN: 978-3-319-32977-2,  978-3-319-32979-6

Année de publication: 2021

Pages: 339-353

Type: Chapitre d'ouvrage

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32979-6_35 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccès ouvert editor

Résumé

Pere Alberch Vié (1954–1998) was an experimental embryologist, theoretical biologist, and evolutionary biologist of Catalan origins who studied and developed part of his career in the USA. With a focus on herpetology, his empirical studies combined conceptual research, theoretical models, and experiments in order to integrate development and evolution. The 1980s were the most productive and innovative period of his career, when he was assistant professor and curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. In the 1990s, he continued his work as Director of the Museum of Natural History in Madrid, Spain. His contributions on topics such as heterochrony, developmental constraints, evolvability, possible variation, construction rules, the morphospace, or the “logic of monsters” have largely been conducive to shape the core concepts of evo-devo.

Références bibliographiques

  • Alberch P (1980) Ontogenesis and morphological diversification. Am Zool 20(4):653–667
  • Alberch P (1981) Convergence and parallelism in foot morphology in the neotropical salamander genus Bolitoglossa. I. Function. Evolution 35(1):84–100
  • Alberch P (1982a) Developmental constraints in evolutionary processes. In: Bonner JT (ed) Evolution and development. Dahlem Konferenzen/Springer, Berlin, pp 313–332
  • Alberch P (1982b) The generative and regulatory roles of development in evolution. In: Mossakowski D, Roth G (eds) Environmental adaptation and evolution: a theoretical and empirical approach. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, pp 19–35
  • Alberch P (1983) Morphological variation in the neotropical salamander genus Bolitoglossa. Evolution 37(5):906–919
  • Alberch P (1985a) Problems with the interpretation of developmental sequences. Syst Zool 34(1):46–58
  • Alberch P (1985b) Developmental constraints: why St. Bernards often have an extra digit and poodles never do. Am Nat 126(3):430–433
  • Alberch P (1986) Possible dogs. Nat Hist 95(12):4–8
  • Alberch P (1987) Evolution of a developmental process: irreversibility and redundancy in amphibian metamorphosis. In: Raff RA, Raff EC (eds) Development as an evolutionary process. Alan R. Liss, New York, pp 23–46
  • Alberch P (1989) The logic of monsters: evidence for internal constraint in development and evolution. Geobios 12:21–57
  • Alberch P (1991) From genes to phenotype: dynamical systems and evolvability. Genetica 84:5–11
  • Alberch P (1995) “Ontogeny and phylogeny” revisited: 18 years of heterochrony and developmental constraints. In: Arai R, Kato M, Doi Y (eds) Biodiversity and evolution. The National Science Museum Foundation, Tokyo, pp 229–249. (reprinted in Rasskin-Gutman and De Renzi, 2009)
  • Alberch P, Alberch J (1981) Heterochronic mechanisms of morphological diversification and evolutionary change in the neotropical salamander, Bolitoglossa occidentalis (Amphibia; Plethodontidae). J Morphol 167(2):249–264
  • Alberch P, Blanco MJ (1996) Evolutionary patterns in ontogenetic transformation: from laws to regularities. Int J Dev Biol 40:845–858
  • Alberch P, Gale E (1983) Size dependence during the development of the amphibian foot. Colchicine-induced digital loss and reduction. J Embryol Exp Morpholog 76:177–197
  • Alberch P, Gale E (1985) A developmental analysis of an evolutionary trend: digital reduction in amphibians. Evolution 39(1):8–23
  • Alberch P, Gale EA (1986) Pathways of cytodifferentiation during the metamorphosis of the epibranchial cartilage in the salamander Eurycea bislineata. Dev Biol 117(1):233–244
  • Alberch P, Gould SJ, Oster GF, Wake DB (1979) Size and shape in ontogeny and phylogeny. Paleobiology 5(3):296–317
  • Oster G, Alberch P (1982) Evolution and bifurcation of developmental programs. Evolution 36:444–459
  • Oster GF, Shubin N, Murray JD, Alberch P (1988) Evolution and morphogenetic rules: the shape of the vertebrate limb in ontogeny and phylogeny. Evolution 42:862–884
  • Shubin NH, Alberch P (1986) A morphogenetic approach to the origin and basic organization of the tetrapod limb. In: Hecht MK, Wallace B, Prance GT (eds) Evolutionary biology. Springer, Boston