Developmental Biology

This book is the gold standard in developmental biology. The many micrographs and its comprehensiveness make it an indispensible resource for serious students in the field.

Auteur
Michael J. F. Barresi is Professor of Biological Sciences at Smith College, where he has pioneered the use of a variety of technologies to engage student in novel ways with the concepts of developmental biology as well as the researchers making the discoveries of this field. Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology Emeritus at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in teaching from the Society of Developmental Biology as well as the Alexander Kowalevsky Award in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

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Thoroughly updated, streamlined, and enhanced with pedagogical features, the twelfth edition of Barresi and Gilbert's Developmental Biology engages students and empowers instructors to effectively teach both the stable principles and the newest front-page research of this vast, complex, and multi-disciplinary field. This much loved, well-illustrated, and remarkably well written textbook invigorates the classical insights of embryology with cutting edge material, and makes the most complex topics understandable to a new generation of students. Designed with the undergraduate student in mind, this new, streamlined edition now contains studies of plant development, expanded coverage of regeneration, over a hundred new and revised illustrations, and deeply integrated active learning resources that build on the text's enthusiasm and accuracy. This is a text designed to make students become excited about how animals and plants develop their complex bodies from simple origins.

Contenu

• PART I. PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF BECOMING: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL DEVELOPMENT

• Chapter 1. Making New Bodies: Mechanisms of Developmental Organization

• Chapter 2. Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning

• Chapter 3. Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation

• Chapter 4. Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis

• Chapter 5. Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches

• PART II. GAMETOGENESIS AND FERTILIZATION: THE CIRCLE OF SEX

• Chapter 6. Sex Determination and Gametogenesis

• Chapter 7. Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism

• PART III. EARLY DEVELOPMENT: CLEAVAGE, GASTRULATION, AND AXIS FORMATION

• Chapter 8. Rapid Specification in Snails and Nematodes

• Chapter 9. The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila

• Chapter 10. Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates

• Chapter 11. Amphibians and Fish

• Chapter 12. Birds and Mammals

• PART IV. BUILDING WITH ECTODERM: THE VERTEBRATE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND EPIDERMIS

• Chapter 13. Neural Tube Formation and Patterning

• Chapter 14. Brain Growth

• Chapter 15. Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity

• Chapter 16. Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis

• PART V. BUILDING WITH MESODERM AND ENDODERM: ORGANOGENESIS

• Chapter 17. Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives

• Chapter 18. Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys

• Chapter 19. Development of the Tetrapod Limb

• Chapter 20. The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration

• PART VI. POSTEMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT

• Chapter 21. Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development

• Chapter 22. Regeneration

• PART VII. DEVELOPMENT IN WIDER CONTEXTS

• Chapter 23. Development in Health and Disease: Birth, Defects, Endocrine Disruptors, and Cancer

• Chapter 24. Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development

• Chapter 25. Development and Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

• Glossary

• Author Index

• Subject Index