Developmental Biology

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-02-20
Mått:279 x 217 x 26 mm
Vikt:1 615 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:792
Upplaga:12
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9781605358741

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Biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Michael J. F. Barresi is Professor of Biological Sciences at Smith College, where he has pioneered the use of a variety of technologies to engage student in novel ways with the concepts of developmental biology as well as the researchers making the discoveries of this field.Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology Emeritus at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in teaching from the Society of Developmental Biology as well as the Alexander Kowalevsky Award in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

PART I. PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF BECOMING: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL DEVELOPMENTChapter 1. Making New Bodies: Mechanisms of Developmental OrganizationChapter 2. Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental PatterningChapter 3. Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell DifferentiationChapter 4. Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of MorphogenesisChapter 5. Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their NichesPART II. GAMETOGENESIS AND FERTILIZATION: THE CIRCLE OF SEXChapter 6. Sex Determination and GametogenesisChapter 7. Fertilization: Beginning a New OrganismPART III. EARLY DEVELOPMENT: CLEAVAGE, GASTRULATION, AND AXIS FORMATIONChapter 8. Rapid Specification in Snails and NematodesChapter 9. The Genetics of Axis Specification in DrosophilaChapter 10. Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome InvertebratesChapter 11. Amphibians and FishChapter 12. Birds and MammalsPART IV. BUILDING WITH ECTODERM: THE VERTEBRATE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND EPIDERMISChapter 13. Neural Tube Formation and PatterningChapter 14. Brain GrowthChapter 15. Neural Crest Cells and Axonal SpecificityChapter 16. Ectodermal Placodes and the EpidermisPART V. BUILDING WITH MESODERM AND ENDODERM: ORGANOGENESISChapter 17. Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their DerivativesChapter 18. Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and KidneysChapter 19. Development of the Tetrapod LimbChapter 20. The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and RespirationPART VI. POSTEMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENTChapter 21. Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of DevelopmentChapter 22. RegenerationPART VII. DEVELOPMENT IN WIDER CONTEXTSChapter 23. Development in Health and Disease: Birth, Defects, Endocrine Disruptors, and CancerChapter 24. Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of DevelopmentChapter 25. Development and Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary ChangeGlossaryAuthor IndexSubject Index