Developmental Biology - Michael Barresi

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Résumé :
This text takes a balanced and modern approach, presenting the exciting developments in the field, and making the most complex topics understandable to a new generation of students.

Developmental Biology, Thirteenth Edition, accommodates the needs of both beginners and advanced students by clearly distinguishing the main subject matter from the details needed by advanced students.

An enhanced eBook contains videos, interviews, tutorials, and interactive features. This market-leading text embodies the breadth, intellectual rigor, and wonder of contemporary developmental biology....

Biographie:

• Ch. 1 The Making of Body and a Field: Introduction to Developmental Biology


• Ch. 2 Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning


• Ch. 3 Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentation


• Ch. 4 Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation


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


• Ch. 6 Sex Determination and Gametogenesis


• Ch. 7 Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism


• Ch. 8 Conceptualizing Early Development: Essential Processes


• Ch. 9 Snails, Flowers and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patterns of Specification


• Ch. 10 The Genetics of Axis Specification Drosophila


• Ch. 11 Sea Urchins and Tunicates


• Ch. 12 Amphibians and Fish


• Ch. 13 Birds and Mammals


• Ch. 14 Early Human Development


• Ch. 15 Neural Tube Formation and Patterning


• Ch. 16 Brain Growth


• Ch. 17 Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity


• Ch. 18 Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis


• Ch. 19 Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives


• Ch. 20 Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys


• Ch. 21 Development of the Tatrapod Limb


• Ch. 22 The Endoderm: Tubes and organs for Digestion and Respiration


• Ch. 23 Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development


• Ch. 24 Regeneration


• Ch. 25 The Environmental and Symbiotic Regulation of Development


• Ch. 26 Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change