Dear friends, Thanks to 30 people who wrote me indicating books and videos to use with undergrad classes about Evo Devo and these are the most cited material: ----- The most cited books: Endless Forms Most Beautiful for Evo Devo. By Sean Carroll. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Endless-Forms-Most-Beautiful-Science/dp/1849160481/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid01065731&sr=8-1. It would be a good introduction to get students interested. Very accessible. >From DNA To Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design, 2nd ed. Carroll, Grenier, Weatherbee. 2005. Blackwell Publishing. Wallace Arthur "Evolution. A developmental approach", which was just published by Wiley-Blackwell. Hall BK, Olson WM: Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. 2003:476. ----- Other books: There is a very nice chapter on the topic written by John True in Futuyma's textbook, Evolution (2nd edition). "The Origin of Animal Body Plans" by Wallace Arthur The evolution of developmental pathways. Wilkins. Wray, G. A. 2010. Embryos and Evolution: 150 years of reciprocal illumination. In: Evolution Since Darwin: The Firt 150 Years, pp. 215-239, in M. A. Bell, D. J. Futuyma, W. F. Eanes, and M. A. Bell. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland. Developmental plasticity and evolution. West-Eberhard. (lots of overview material) Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Gould. (not exactly up to date, it's from 1977) Evolution - The Extended Synthesis IT Press, 2010 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid173 Evolution, Development, and the Predictable Genome. David L. Stern (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Development-Predictable-Genome-David/dp/1936221012/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid01078243&sr=1-6 Gilbert & Epel's "Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution The shape of life. Raff ----- VIDEOS: "Ghost in Your Genes" (http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Your-Genes-Nova/dp/B000XBPDYY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid01077278&sr=8-1) "What Darwin Never Knew" both produced by the television show NOVA. PBS video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetics.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/rnai-explained.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/rnai.html http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/rna/rna_interference/01.html http://www.nature.com/focus/rnai/animations/index.html http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/rats/ ----- Website: On ENSI site, there is a very nice Threespine Stickleback lesson that introduces elements of evo-devo: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/stickleback.html ----- Thanks for all of you and....... we need a website to organize references, links of videos and also a library of slides. We are always discussing about research but we need a place to centralize all material! Prof. Dr. J. C. VOLTOLINI Universidade de Taubate - Departamento de Biologia Taubate, SP. 12030-010. E-Mail: jcvoltol@uol.com.br ECOTROP (CNPq): http://dgp.cnpq.br/buscaoperacional/detalhegrupo.jsp?grupo46205IMB87W7 Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8137155809735635 Orkut ("Ensino de Ciência"): http://www.orkut.com.br/Main#Profile?rl=ls&uid608429643840608483 Fotos Artísticas: http://voltolini.album.uol.com.br/texturas. 'Siamo tutti angeli con un'ala e possiamo volare soltanto se ciabbracciamo' jcvoltol@uol.com.br