Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

 
Edition number: 12
Publisher: OUP USA
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ISBN13:9781605358741
ISBN10:1605358746
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:792 pages
Size:217x279x26 mm
Weight:2 g
Language:English
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Thoroughly updated, streamlined, and enhanced with pedagogical features, the twelfth edition of Barresi and Gilbert's Developmental Biology engages students and empowers instructors to effectively teach both the stable principles and the newest front-page research of this vast, complex, and multi-disciplinary field. This much loved, well-illustrated, and remarkably well written textbook invigorates the classical insights of embryology with cutting edge material, and makes the most complex topics understandable to a new generation of students. Designed with the undergraduate student in mind, this new, streamlined edition now contains studies of plant development, expanded coverage of regeneration, over a hundred new and revised illustrations, and deeply integrated active learning resources that build on the text's enthusiasm and accuracy. This is a text designed to make students become excited about how animals and plants develop their complex bodies from simple origins.

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Thoroughly updated, streamlined, and enhanced with pedagogical features, the twelfth edition of Barresi and Gilbert's Developmental Biology engages students and empowers instructors to effectively teach both the stable principles and the newest front-page research of this vast, complex, and multi-disciplinary field. This much loved, well-illustrated, and remarkably well written textbook invigorates the classical insights of embryology with cutting edge material, and makes the most complex topics understandable to a new generation of students. Designed with the undergraduate student in mind, this new, streamlined edition now contains studies of plant development, expanded coverage of regeneration, over a hundred new and revised illustrations, and deeply integrated active learning resources that build on the text's enthusiasm and accuracy. This is a text designed to make students become excited about how animals and plants develop their complex bodies from simple origins.

The new edition makes it easier to customize one's developmental biology course to the needs and interests of today's students, integrating the printed book with electronic interviews, videos, and tutorials. Michael J. F. Barresi brings his creativity and expertise as a teacher and as an artist of computer-mediated learning to the book, allowing the professor to use both standard and alternative ways of teaching animal and plant development.

Always a firm favourite, this has since last year become my textbook of choice. I have found the digital resources associated with this book extremely helpful, and have made grateful use of the teaching ideas that the authors have shared.
Table of Contents:
PART I. PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF BECOMING: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1. Making New Bodies: Mechanisms of Developmental Organization
Chapter 2. Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning
Chapter 3. Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation
Chapter 4. Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis
Chapter 5. Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches
PART II. GAMETOGENESIS AND FERTILIZATION: THE CIRCLE OF SEX
Chapter 6. Sex Determination and Gametogenesis
Chapter 7. Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism
PART III. EARLY DEVELOPMENT: CLEAVAGE, GASTRULATION, AND AXIS FORMATION
Chapter 8. Rapid Specification in Snails and Nematodes
Chapter 9. The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila
Chapter 10. Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates
Chapter 11. Amphibians and Fish
Chapter 12. Birds and Mammals
PART IV. BUILDING WITH ECTODERM: THE VERTEBRATE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND EPIDERMIS
Chapter 13. Neural Tube Formation and Patterning
Chapter 14. Brain Growth
Chapter 15. Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity
Chapter 16. Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis
PART V. BUILDING WITH MESODERM AND ENDODERM: ORGANOGENESIS
Chapter 17. Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives
Chapter 18. Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys
Chapter 19. Development of the Tetrapod Limb
Chapter 20. The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration
PART VI. POSTEMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 21. Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development
Chapter 22. Regeneration
PART VII. DEVELOPMENT IN WIDER CONTEXTS
Chapter 23. Development in Health and Disease: Birth, Defects, Endocrine Disruptors, and Cancer
Chapter 24. Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development
Chapter 25. Development and Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change
Glossary
Author Index
Subject Index