A short and nice video about evo devo @ scientific American

A recent interview of Richard Dawkins done by SKY NEWS talking about evolution and his new book “The Greatest Show on Earth—Evidence for Evolution“.

While surfing youtube i came across two very nice videos describing early embyonic development development in Drosophila embryos. Sharing those videos here which will definitely help in gaining insights about the various players involved and how they interact with other proteins while patterning early Drosophila embryo along the anterior posterior axis.The second video displays various morphological changes that occur in early embryo of Drosophila.

Saw this video of amazing Cnidarians at PZ Myers blog . Video originally uploaded by Eugenia Loli-Queru watch this mesmerizing video.

Drifters of the deep from Eugenia Loli-Queru on Vimeo.

Now that’s creative rapping and accompanied with some really well written lyrics . These people did some awesome work and as PZ Myers suggest ,deserves a Grammy. Most of the vital aspects of dev bio like asymmetric embryo,transcription factors,regulation,hox ,homeotic mutants, evo devo and many more are covered in an interesting way. enjoy!!!

This is just awesome !!!! There can hardly be any better example of Watching an animal getting to life. Bruno Vellutini created an video depicting the life cycle of the sea biscuit Clypeaster subdepressus, which was a part of his masters thesis. Its really a beautiful done video displaying all the stages of sea biscuits life cycle ,beginning from the induction of gametes and following the whole embryonic development under the microscope. Embryos later gets into pluteis larvae form with two arms (its the stage which i particularly liked a …

Year 2009 holds a special place in the field of Evolution as it celebrates 200 years of Charles Darwin’s Birth(12 February 2009) and 150 years of Publication of one of the greatest books “Origin of species”(24 November 2009).To celebrate these events and to create more awareness among the general public by providing evidence for evolution by natural selection,the editors of Nature(Henry Gee, Rory Howlett and Philip Campbell) came out with a compilation of some great examples of evolution.These enlightening examples were part of Nature’s issue during the last decade,which displays …