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  1. Book ; Online: Renegotiating Disciplinary Fields in the Life Sciences

    Minelli, Alessandro

    2021  

    Keywords Research & information: general ; Biology, life sciences ; research programs ; scientific pluralism ; taxonomic theory ; taxonomic pluralisms ; typology ; phylogenetics ; biosystematics ; numerical taxonomy ; biomorphics ; evo-devo ; nomadic concept ; nomadic discipline ; anchor concept ; anchor discipline ; life cycle ; generation ; organizational module ; species ; evolutionary developmental biology ; evolutionary extended synthesis ; theory of development ; active inference ; attention ; development ; evolution ; language ; memory ; pragmatics ; reference frames ; scale-free cognition ; self ; stigmergy ; process philosophy ; scientific perspectivism ; developmental genetics ; plant structure ontology ; homology ; land plant phylogeny ; morphological misfits ; flower ; phyllotaxis ; Utricularia ; n/a
    Size 1 electronic resource (148 pages)
    Publisher MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Publishing place Basel, Switzerland
    Document type Book ; Online
    Note English ; Open Access
    HBZ-ID HT021044070
    ISBN 9783036501253 ; 3036501258
    Database ZB MED Catalogue: Medicine, Health, Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  2. Book: The biology of reproduction

    Fusco, Giuseppe / Minelli, Alessandro

    2019  

    Author's details Giuseppe Fusco, Alessandro Minelli
    Keywords Reproduction
    Subject code 591.56
    Language English
    Size xviii, 472, Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Publisher Cambridge University Press
    Publishing place Cambridge
    Publishing country Great Britain
    Document type Book
    HBZ-ID HT020274125
    ISBN 978-1-108-73171-3 ; 978-1-108-49985-9 ; 9781108607254 ; 1-108-73171-6 ; 1-108-49985-6 ; 110860725X
    Database Catalogue ZB MED Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  3. Article ; Online: Linear listing order and hierarchical classification

    Alessandro Minelli

    European Journal of Taxonomy, Vol 908, Iss

    history, conflict, and use

    2023  Volume 1

    Abstract: Taxonomic criteria alone are not sufficient to determine a linear sequence for the arrangement of collection specimens according to a preferred classification or the linear sequence according to which taxa are best discussed in articles or books. The ... ...

    Abstract Taxonomic criteria alone are not sufficient to determine a linear sequence for the arrangement of collection specimens according to a preferred classification or the linear sequence according to which taxa are best discussed in articles or books. The choice of methodology to obtain a linear sequence of taxa in agreement with a hierarchical classification has been little studied and remains controversial. In this article, I offer an historical background, before examining properties, use and limits of possible listing criteria. The result of a linearization effort depends on arbitrary choices with respect to two aspects of the hierarchical classification we intend to linearize. One is the order to be followed in listing the immediately subordinate members of a given taxon, the other is the choice of the sets of taxa to be linearized according to tradition, alphabetic order or other criterion. The example presented here, related to the “orders” of Hexapoda, demonstrates the need to specify very clearly the extent and composition of the uncollapsed classification backbone retained in the linearization procedure.
    Keywords alphabetic order of taxa ; collapsing nodes ; hierarchical classification vs linear listing order ; history of taxonomy ; linear classification ; Zoology ; QL1-991 ; Botany ; QK1-989
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Consortium of European Natural History Museums
    Document type Article ; Online
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  4. Article ; Online: A refreshed approach to homology-Prioritizing epistemology over metaphysics.

    Minelli, Alessandro

    Journal of morphology

    2022  Volume 284, Issue 1, Page(s) e21533

    Abstract: Unease with the inclusion of "sameness" in Owen's definition of homology characterizes a substantial part of the literature on this subject, where this term has acquired an increasingly strict metaphysical flavor. Taken for granted the existence of body ... ...

    Abstract Unease with the inclusion of "sameness" in Owen's definition of homology characterizes a substantial part of the literature on this subject, where this term has acquired an increasingly strict metaphysical flavor. Taken for granted the existence of body features that are "the same," their existence has been explained by appealing to universal laws of form, as the product of common ancestry, or in terms of proximal causes responsible for the emergence of conserved developmental modules. However, a fundamentally different approach is possible, if we shift attention from metaphysics to epistemology. We may reword Owen's statement as follows: organs of different animals, in so far as they can be described as the same despite any difference in form and function, are called homologues. The proposed framework provides an umbrella for both the traditional, all-or-nothing concept of homology, and the less fashionable alternatives of factorial or partial homology, as well as for an extension of homology from form to function. No less attractive is the prospect to handle also ghost homologues, the body parts or organs of which there is non-objective evidence in a given clade, but can nevertheless be represented, in a description that encapsulates some of the traits observable in their extant homologue in the sister clade. Stripped of its different and constraining metaphysical explanations, homology survives as an anchor concept to which different nomadic disciplines and research agendas can be associated.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Knowledge ; Metaphysics ; Phenotype ; Classification/methods ; Phylogeny
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-11-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 3084-3
    ISSN 1097-4687 ; 0022-2887 ; 0362-2525
    ISSN (online) 1097-4687
    ISSN 0022-2887 ; 0362-2525
    DOI 10.1002/jmor.21533
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  5. Article ; Online: Two-way exchanges between animal and plant biology, with focus on evo-devo

    Alessandro Minelli

    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol

    2022  Volume 10

    Abstract: By definition, biology is the science of all living beings. However, horizons restricted to either plants or animals have characterized the development of life sciences well beyond the emergence of unified perspectives applying to all forms of life, such ...

    Abstract By definition, biology is the science of all living beings. However, horizons restricted to either plants or animals have characterized the development of life sciences well beyond the emergence of unified perspectives applying to all forms of life, such as the cell theory or the theory of evolution. Separation between botanical and zoological traditions is not destined to go extinct easily, or shortly. Disciplinary isolation is emphasized by institutional contexts such as scientific societies and their congresses, specialist journals, disciplines recognized as teaching subjects and legitimate and fundable research fields. By shaping the personal agendas of individual scientists, this has a strong impact on the development of biology. In some fields, botanical and zoological contributions have long being effectively intertwined, but in many others plant and animal biology have failed to progress beyond a marginal dialogue. Characteristically, the so-called “general biology” and the philosophy of biology are still zoocentric (and often vertebrato- or even anthropocentric). In this article, I discuss legitimacy and fruitfulness of some old lexical and conceptual exchanges between the two traditions (cell, tissue, and embryo). Finally, moving to recent developments, I compare the contributions of plant vs. animal biology to the establishment of evolutionary developmental biology. We cannot expect that stronger integration between the different strands of life sciences will soon emerge by self-organization, but highlighting this persisting imbalance between plant and animal biology will arguably foster progress.
    Keywords developmental biology journals ; Dictyostelium ; evolutionary biology journals ; history of biology ; hourglass model ; paramorphism ; Evolution ; QH359-425 ; Ecology ; QH540-549.5
    Subject code 501
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
    Document type Article ; Online
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  6. Article ; Online: On the Nature of Organs and Organ Systems – A Chapter in the History and Philosophy of Biology

    Alessandro Minelli

    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol

    2021  Volume 9

    Abstract: Contrasting definitions of organs based either on function or on strictly morphological criteria are the legacy of a tradition starting with Aristotle. This floating characterization of organs in terms of both form and function extends also to organ ... ...

    Abstract Contrasting definitions of organs based either on function or on strictly morphological criteria are the legacy of a tradition starting with Aristotle. This floating characterization of organs in terms of both form and function extends also to organ systems. The first section of this review outlines the notions of organ and body part as defined, explicitly or implicitly, in representative works of nineteenth century’s comparative morphology. The lack of a clear distinction between the two notions led to problems in Owen’s approach to the comparative method (definition of homolog vs. nature of the vertebrate archetype) and to a paradoxical formulation, by Anton Dohrn, of the principle of functional change. Starting from the second half of the twentieth century, with the extensive use of morphological data in phylogenetic analyses, both terms – organ and body part – have been often set aside, to leave room for a comparison between variously characterized attributes (character states) of the taxa to be compared. Throughout the last two centuries, there have been also efforts to characterize organs or body parts in terms of the underlying developmental dynamics, both in the context of classical descriptive embryology and according to models suggested by developmental genetics. Functionally defined organ are occasionally co-extensive with morphologically defined body parts, nevertheless a clear distinction between the former and the latter is a necessary prerequisite to a study of their evolution: this issue is discussed here on the example of the evolution of hermaphroditism and gonad structure and function.
    Keywords organ ; body part ; organ system ; Dohrn ; Owen ; hermaphroditism ; Evolution ; QH359-425 ; Ecology ; QH540-549.5
    Subject code 501
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z
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  7. Article ; Online: Descriptive versus causal morphology: gynandromorphism and intersexuality.

    Fusco, Giuseppe / Minelli, Alessandro

    Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften

    2023  Volume 142, Issue 1, Page(s) 1–11

    Abstract: In animal species with separate sexes, abnormal individuals with a mix of phenotypically male and phenotypically female body parts are generally indicated as gynandromorphs, whereas individuals with intermediate sexual phenotypic traits are generally ... ...

    Abstract In animal species with separate sexes, abnormal individuals with a mix of phenotypically male and phenotypically female body parts are generally indicated as gynandromorphs, whereas individuals with intermediate sexual phenotypic traits are generally indicated as intersexes. However, this distinction, clear as it may seem, is neither universally agreed upon, nor free of critical issues. In consideration of the role of sex anomalies in understanding normal development, we reassess these phenomena of abnormal sexual development, taking into consideration the more recent advances in the study of sex determination and sexual differentiation. We argue that a distinction between gynandromorphism and intersexuality, although useful for descriptive purposes, is not always possible or sensible. We discuss the conceptual and terminological intricacies of the literature on this subject and provide reasons for largely, although not strictly, preferring a terminology based on descriptive rather than causal morphology, that is, on the observed phenotypic patterns rather on the causal process behind them.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Male ; Female ; Disorders of Sex Development ; Phenotype
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-12
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1376847-5
    ISSN 1611-7530 ; 1431-7613
    ISSN (online) 1611-7530
    ISSN 1431-7613
    DOI 10.1007/s12064-023-00385-1
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  8. Article ; Online: Zoology: The view from 1,000 feet.

    Minelli, Alessandro / Edgecombe, Gregory D

    Current biology : CB

    2022  Volume 32, Issue 5, Page(s) R225–R228

    Abstract: Variability in segment numbers in the world's most-leggy millipede adds support to a multiplicative mode of segment generation in myriapods. ...

    Abstract Variability in segment numbers in the world's most-leggy millipede adds support to a multiplicative mode of segment generation in myriapods.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Arthropods ; Zoology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-04
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 1071731-6
    ISSN 1879-0445 ; 0960-9822
    ISSN (online) 1879-0445
    ISSN 0960-9822
    DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.072
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  9. Article ; Online: The galaxy of the non-Linnaean nomenclature.

    Minelli, Alessandro

    History and philosophy of the life sciences

    2019  Volume 41, Issue 3, Page(s) 31

    Abstract: Contrary to the traditional claim that needs for unambiguous communication about animal and plant species are best served by a single set of names (Linnaean nomenclature) ruled by international Codes, I suggest that a more diversified system is required, ...

    Abstract Contrary to the traditional claim that needs for unambiguous communication about animal and plant species are best served by a single set of names (Linnaean nomenclature) ruled by international Codes, I suggest that a more diversified system is required, especially to cope with problems emerging from aggregation of biodiversity data in large databases. Departures from Linnaean nomenclature are sometimes intentional, but there are also other, less obvious but widespread forms of not Code-compliant grey nomenclature. A first problem is due to the circumstance that the Codes are intended to rule over the way names are applied to species and other taxonomic units, whereas users of taxonomy need names to be applied to specimens. For different reasons, it is often impossible to refer a specimen with certainty to a named species, and in those cases an open nomenclature is employed. Second, molecular taxonomy leads to the discovery of clusters of gene sequence diversity not necessarily equivalent to the species recognized and named by taxonomists. Those clusters are mostly indicated with informal names or formulas that challenge comparison between different publications or databases. In several instances, it is not even clear if a formula refers to an individual voucher specimen, or is a provisional species name. The use of non-Linnaean names and formulas must be revised and strengthened by fixing standard formats for the different kinds of objects or hypotheses and providing permanent association of 'grey names' with standardized source information such as author and year. In the context of a broad-scope revisitation of aims and scope of scientific nomenclature, it may be worth rethinking if natural objects like plant galls and lichens, although other than the 'single-entity' objects traditionally covered by biological classifications, may nevertheless deserve taxonomic names.
    MeSH term(s) Biodiversity ; Classification/methods ; Data Management ; Terminology as Topic
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-08-21
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2094240-0
    ISSN 1742-6316 ; 0391-9714
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  10. Article: Surgical Treatment of Shoulder Pathologies in Professional Gymnasts: Findings, Treatment, and Clinical Outcomes.

    Ranieri, Riccardo / Illuminati, Matteo / Conti, Marco / Delle Rose, Giacomo / Minelli, Marco / Castagna, Alessandro

    Journal of clinical medicine

    2024  Volume 13, Issue 8

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    Publishing date 2024-04-10
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2662592-1
    ISSN 2077-0383
    ISSN 2077-0383
    DOI 10.3390/jcm13082183
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