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Michael Barresi's Devlopmental Biology includes new features and active learning approaches to help students and instructors succeed, including electronic interviews, videos, tutorials, and case studies.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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 Sherrard 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 Swathmore 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.
Summary
Michael Barresi's Devlopmental Biology includes new features and active learning approaches to help students and instructors succeed, including electronic interviews, videos, tutorials, and case studies.
