Developmental Biology
13th Edition
Published on 26. April 2023
Book
Hardback
880 pages
978-0-19-757459-1 (ISBN)
Description
This classic 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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
This text is the gold standard, using the foundation of the Scott Gilbert text. Barresi works hard to keep the topics current, and provides many online, resources to supplement the text that the students very much appreciate and even enjoy."- Crystal Ivie, Boise Statte University A textbook for an upper division biology class of bright students who want to learn concepts as well as be exposed to the experiments in the field. It also is bold in covering developmental biology from the molecular to the ecological, from the seconds to the evolutionary timescale, etc."
- Donna Nofziger, Pepperdine University This is a modern discussion of human development that includes many highly relevant examples that will be interest to undergraduates (or graduate students) with career aspirations in the health sciences."
- Paula Marie Checchi, Marist College
More details
Edition
13th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-0-19-757459-1 (9780197574591)
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Persons
Michael J. F. Barresi is Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Smith College. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology and the Sherrerd prize for distinguished teaching from Smith College. Michael has pioneered the use of a variety of technologies to engage students and faculty in novel ways with the concepts of developmental biology as well as with researchers making discoveries
in this field.
Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology (emeritus) at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor (emeritus) at the University of Helsinki. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology as well as the Alexander Kowalevsky Award in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.
in this field.
Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology (emeritus) at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor (emeritus) at the University of Helsinki. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology as well as the Alexander Kowalevsky Award in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.
Content
1. The Making of Body and a Field: Introduction to Developmental Biology 2. Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning 3. Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentation
4. Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation
5. Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches 6. Sex Determination and Gametogenesis
7. Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism 8. Conceptualizing Early Development: Essential Processes 9. Snails, Flowers and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patterns of Specification
10. The Genetics of Axis Specification Drosophila 11. Sea Urchins and Tunicates 12. Amphibians and Fish 13. Birds and Mammals 14. Early Human Development 15. Neural Tube Formation and Patterning 16. Brain Growth 17. Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity 18. Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis 19. Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives
20. Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys 21. Development of the Tatrapod Limb 22. The Endoderm: Tubes and organs for Digestion and Respiration 23. Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development 24. Regeneration 25. The Environmental and Symbiotic Regulation of Development 26. Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change
4. Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation
5. Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches 6. Sex Determination and Gametogenesis
7. Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism 8. Conceptualizing Early Development: Essential Processes 9. Snails, Flowers and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patterns of Specification
10. The Genetics of Axis Specification Drosophila 11. Sea Urchins and Tunicates 12. Amphibians and Fish 13. Birds and Mammals 14. Early Human Development 15. Neural Tube Formation and Patterning 16. Brain Growth 17. Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity 18. Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis 19. Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives
20. Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys 21. Development of the Tatrapod Limb 22. The Endoderm: Tubes and organs for Digestion and Respiration 23. Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development 24. Regeneration 25. The Environmental and Symbiotic Regulation of Development 26. Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change