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Essential Developmental Biology
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Essential Developmental Biology, 2nd Edition, is a concise and well-illustrated treatment of this subject for undergraduates. With an emphasis throughout on the evidence underpinning the main conclusions, this book is suitable as the key text for both introductory and more advanced courses in developmental biology.
- Includes new chapters on Evolution & Development, Gut Development, & Growth and Aging.
- Contains expanded treatment of mammalian fertilization, the heart and stem cells.
- Now features a glossary, notated further reading, and key discovery boxes.
- Illustrated with over 250 detailed, full-color drawings.
- Accompanied by a dedicated website, featuring animated developmental processes, a photo gallery of selected model organisms, and all art in PowerPoint and jpeg formats (also available to instructors on CD-ROM).
An Instructor manual CD-ROM for this title is available. Please contact our Higher Education team at [email protected] for more information.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Section 1: Groundwork
- Chapter 1The excitement of developmental biology
- Where the subject came from
- Central position in biology
- Impact on society
- Future impact
- Chapter 2 Common features of development
- Genomic equivalence, cloning of animals
- Gametogenesis
- Early development
- Morphogenetic processes
- Growth and death
- Chapter 3 Developmental genetics
- Developmental mutants
- Screening for mutants
- Cloning of genes
- Transgenesis
- Gene duplication
- Chapter 4 Experimental embryology
- Normal development
- Developmental commitment
- Acquisition of commitment
- Homeotic genes
- Criteria for proof
- Chapter 5 Techniques for the study of development
- Microscopy
- Study of gene expression by biochemical methods
- Study of gene expression by in situ methods
- Reporter genes
- Microinjection
- Cell-labeling methods
- Cell sorting
- Section 2: Major model organisms
- Chapter 6 Model organisms
- The big six
- A vailability and cost
- Access and micromanipulation
- Genetics and genome maps
- Relevance and tempo
- Chapter 7 Xenopus
- Oogenesis, maturation, fertilization
- Embryonic development
- Experimental methods
- Regional specification
- Inductive interactions
- Chapter 8 The zebrafish
- Normal development
- Mutagenesis
- Regional specification
- Chapter 9 The chick
- Normal development
- Regional specification of the early embryo
- Description of organogenesis in the chick
- Chapter 10 The mouse
- Mammalian fertilization
- Normal embryonic development
- Technology of mouse development
- Regional specification in development
- Other topics in mouse development
- Chapter 11 Drosophila
- Insects
- Normal development
- Drosophila developmental genetics
- Overview of the developmental program
- The dorsoventral pattern
- The anteroposterior system
- Chapter 12 Caenorhabditis elegans
- Normal development
- Regional specification in the embryo
- Analysis of postembryonic development
- Programmed cell death
- Section 3: Organogenesis
- Chapter 13 Tissue organization and stem cells
- Types of tissue
- Tissue renewal
- Skin
- Intestine
- Hematopoietic system
- Chapter 14 Development of the nervous system
- Overall structure and cell types
- Anteroposterior patterning of the neural plate
- Dorsoventral patterning of the neural tube
- Neurogenesis and gliogenesis
- The neural crest
- Development of neuronal connectivity
- Chapter 15 Development of mesodermal organs
- Somitogenesis and myogenesis
- The kidney
- Germ cell and gonadal development
- Limb development
- Heart and blood vessels
- Chapter 16 Development of endodermal organs
- Normal development
- Determination of the endoderm
- The pancreas
- Chapter 17 Drosophila imaginal discs
- Metamorphosis
- Genetic study of larval development
- Mitotic recombination
- Disc development
- Regional patterning of the wing disc
- Section 4: Growth, regeneration, and evolution
- Chapter 18 Growth, aging, and cancer
- Size and proportion
- Growth in stature
- Aging
- Postnatal disorders of growth and differentiation
- Chapter 19 Regeneration of missing parts
- Planarian regeneration
- Vertebrate limb regeneration
- Chapter 20 Evolution and development
- Macroevolution
- The primordial animal
- What really happened in evolution?
- Appendix: Key molecular components
- Genes
- Transcription factor families
- Signaling systems
- Inducing factor families
- Cytoskeleton
- Cell adhesion molecules
- Extracellular matrix components
- Glossary
- Index
