Scott F. Gilbert
Swarthmore College
236 Papers
2.2K Citations
Scott F. Gilbert is an academic researcher from Swarthmore College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Evolutionary developmental biology. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 233 publications. Previous affiliations of Scott F. Gilbert include University of Helsinki & Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Papers
Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai,Michael G. Hadfield,Thomas C. G. Bosch,Hannah V. Carey,Tomislav Domazet-Lošo,Angela E. Douglas,Nicole Dubilier,Gérard Eberl,Tadashi Fukami,Scott F. Gilbert,Ute Hentschel,Nicole King,Staffan Kjelleberg,Andrew H. Knoll,Natacha Kremer,Sarkis K. Mazmanian,Jessica L. Metcalf,Kenneth H. Nealson,Naomi E. Pierce,John F. Rawls,Ann H. Reid,Edward G. Ruby,Mary E. Rumpho,Jon G. Sanders,Diethard Tautz,Jennifer J. Wernegreen +25 more
TL;DR: Recent technological and intellectual advances that have changed thinking about five questions about how have bacteria facilitated the origin and evolution of animals; how do animals and bacteria affect each other’s genomes; how does normal animal development depend on bacterial partners; and how is homeostasis maintained between animals and their symbionts are highlighted.
A symbiotic view of life: we have never been individuals.
TL;DR: Recognizing the “holobiont”—the multicellular eukaryote plus its colonies of persistent symbionts—as a critically important unit of anatomy, development, physiology, immunology, and evolution opens up new investigative avenues and conceptually challenges the ways in which the biological subdisciplines have heretofore characterized living entities.
Resynthesizing evolutionary and developmental biology.
TL;DR: A new and more robust evolutionary synthesis is emerging that attempts to explain macroevolution as well as microevolutionary events, and the morphogenetic field is seen as a major unit of ontogeny whose changes bring about changes in evolution.
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Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution
Scott F. Gilbert,David Epel +1 more
- 09 Dec 2008
TL;DR: The Environment as a Normal Agent in Producing Phenotypes and How Agents in the Environment Effect Molecular Changes in Development Developmental Symbiosis: Co-Development as a Strategy for Life Embryonic Defenses: Survival in a Hostile World.
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Ecological developmental biology : Developmental biology meets the real world
TL;DR: This essay reviews some of the areas of ecological developmental biology, concentrating on new studies of amphibia and Homo.
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