Research Catalog

Title

Developmental biology / Scott F. Gilbert ; with a chapter on plant development by Susan R. Singer.

Author

Gilbert, Scott F., 1949-

Publication

Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, [2006], ©2006.

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Description

xviii, 817 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm +

Subject

• Embryology
• Developmental biology
• Developmental Biology
• Embryologie
• Biologie du développement

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Ch. 1. Developmental biology : the anatomical tradition -- Ch. 2. Life cycles and the evolution of developmental patterns -- Ch. 3. Principles of experimental embryology -- Ch. 4. The genetic core of development -- Ch. 5. The paradigm of differential gene expression -- Ch. 6. Cell-cell communication in development -- Ch. 7. Fertilization : beginning a new organism -- Ch. 8. Early development in selected invertebrates -- Ch. 9. The genetics of axis specification in Drosophila -- Ch. 10. Early development and axis formation in amphibians -- Ch. 11. The early development of vertebrates : fish, birds, and mammals -- Ch. 12. The emergence of the ectoderm : central nervous system and epidermis -- Ch. 13. Neural crest cells and axonal specificity -- Ch. 14. Paraxial and intermediate mesoderm -- Ch. 15. Lateral plate mesoderm and endoderm -- Ch. 16. Development of the tetrapod limb -- Ch. 17. Sex determination -- Ch. 18. Postembryonic development : metamorphosis, regeneration, and aging -- Ch. 19. The saga of the germ line -- Ch. 20. An overview of plant development -- Ch. 21. Medical implications of developmental biology -- Ch. 22. Environmental regulation of animal development -- Ch. 23. Developmental mechanisms of evolutionary change.

ISBN

087893250X (hardcover)

LCCN

2006004780

OCLC

• ocm63703058
• SCSB-5252221

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries