Biology
Developmental Biology
Publisher: Sinauer Associates, 2010, 711pp, 9th ed.
A textbook emphasizing a core of developmental biology paradigms and principles. The Ninth Edition of Developmental Biology expands its coverage of the mechanisms of development, the roles that environmental factors play in development, the medical applications of our knowledge of development, and the roles that development plays in evolution. Written primarily for undergraduate biology majors, the textbook also serves to introduce graduate students and medical students to developmental biology.
Table of contents
| Ch. 1 | Developmental biology : the anatomical tradition | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Life cycles and the evolution of developmental patterns | 25 |
| Ch. 3 | Principles of experimental embryology | 49 |
| Ch. 4 | The genetic core of development | 77 |
| Ch. 5 | The paradigm of differential gene expression | 101 |
| Ch. 6 | Cell-cell communication in development | 139 |
| Ch. 7 | Fertilization : beginning a new organism | 175 |
| Ch. 8 | Early development in selected invertebrates | 211 |
| Ch. 9 | The genetics of axis specification in Drosophila | 253 |
| Ch. 10 | Early development and axis formation in amphibians | 291 |
| Ch. 11 | The early development of vertebrates : fish, birds, and mammals | 325 |
| Ch. 12 | The emergence of the ectoderm : central nervous system and epidermis | 373 |
| Ch. 13 | Neural crest cells and axonal specificity | 407 |
| Ch. 14 | Paraxial and intermediate mesoderm | 443 |
| Ch. 15 | Lateral plate mesoderm and endoderm | 471 |
| Ch. 16 | Development of the tetrapod limb | 505 |
| Ch. 17 | Sex determination | 529 |
| Ch. 18 | Postembryonic development : metamorphosis, regeneration, and aging | 555 |
| Ch. 19 | The saga of the germ line | 593 |
| Ch. 20 | An overview of plant development | 627 |
| Ch. 21 | Medical implications of developmental biology | 655 |
| Ch. 22 | Environmental regulation of animal development | 693 |
| Ch. 23 | Developmental mechanisms of evolutionary change | 721 |