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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Reflections on Model Species in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.- Chapter 2. Models in Evo-Devo: An Evolving Niche.- Chapter 3. Evo-Devo and the Biodiversity Crisis.- Chapter 4. The Everlasting Ovary: Decoding the Mechanisms of Lifelong Oogenesis in the Naked Mole-Rat.- Chapter 5. Trunk Muscle Differentiation and Growth in Vertebrates.- Chapter 6. Marine Model Organisms for Mechanobiology Studies.- Chapter 7. Evolution and Development of Insect Metamorphosis: A Case of Genetic Accommodation?.- Chapter 8. Oogenesis of the German Cockroach: From Morphology to Regulation.- Chapter 9. Analysis of Bush Cricket Oogenesis Provides an Insight into the Function and Anagenesis of an Enigmatic Organelle Assemblage – the Balbiani Body.- Chapter 10. The Ring-legged Earwig, Euborellia annulipes (Dermaptera, Insecta): A Promising Model to Study Development and Reproductive Strategies of Hemimetabolous Insects.- Chapter 11. Female Germline Cysts in Clitellate Annelids. Organization, Functioning, and Diversity.- Chapter 12. Hydra at the Crossroads of Evolution: Insights into Cell Type Diversification, Regeneration, and Epigenetic Regulation.- Chapter 13. Carnivorous Plants as Model Species for Recent and Further Studies.