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Developmental biology / by Scott F. Gilbert.

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Description

xviii, 918 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

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Contents

1. An introduction to animal development -- 2. Genes and development: Introduction and techniques -- 3. The cellular basis of morphogenesis: Differential cell affinity -- 4. Fertilization: Beginning a new organism -- 5. Cleavage: Creating multicellularity -- 6. Gastrulation: Reorganizing the embryonic cells -- 7. Early vertebrate development: Neurulation and the ectoderm -- 8. Axonal specificity -- 9. Early vertebrate development: Mesoderm and endoderm -- 10. Transcriptional regulation of gene expression: Transcription factors and the activation of specific promoters -- 11. Transcriptional regulation of gene expression: The activation of chromatin -- 12. Control of development by differential RNA processing and translation -- 13. Autonomous cell specification by cytoplasmic determinants -- 14. The genetics of axis specification in Drosophila -- 15. Specification of cell fate by progressive cell-cell interactions -- 16. Establishment of body axes in mammals and birds --
17. Proximate tissue interactions: Secondary induction -- 18. Development of the tetrapod limb -- 19. Cell interactions at a distance: Hormones as mediators of development -- 20. Sex determination -- 21. Environmental regulation of animal development -- 22. The saga of the germ line -- 23. Developmental mechanisms of evolutionary change.

ISBN

0878932445 (hc)

LCCN

97006182

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries