Developmental Biology 7th Edition by Scott Gilbert ISBN 0878932585 978-0878932580

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ISBN 10: 0878932585 

ISBN 13: 978-0878932580

Author:  Scott F. Gilbert

Developmental Biology, Seventh Edition captures the richness, the intellectual excitement, and the wonder of contemporary developmental biology. It is written primarily for undergraduate biology majors but will be useful for introducing graduate students and medical students to developmental biology. In addition to exploring and synthesizing the organismal, cellular, and molecular aspects of animal development, the Seventh Edition expands its coverage of the medical, environmental, and evolutionary aspects of developmental biology.
FEATURES OF THE SEVENTH EDITION

A completely updated text integrates classical developmental biology with contemporary techniques, including the new material on vertebrate limb cell specification, microarrays, RNA interference, microtubular motors, floxed genes, vertebra formation, neural crest differentiation, neural crest specification, heart cell specification, herbicide-induced gonadal disruptions, pancreatic development, digit determination, tadpole deiodinases, insulin-like growth factors, developmental symbioses, and the developmental origins of feathers, jaws, and teeth during evolution.

A new chapter on medical implications of developmental biology • The news is full of developmental biology and its medical implications. Therapeutic cloning and cancer therapies, in vitro fertilization, congenital anomalies, and teratogenesis are major concerns not only of scientists but of all citizens. Chapter 21, “Medical Implications of Human Development,” brings these topics together and discusses:

* the regulation of fertility
* the identification of genetic defects that affect development
* the identification of teratogenic compounds that affect development
* the identification of factors in the maternal environment which may influence the health of the fetus or the adult
* the realization that cancers can be disruptions of developmental regulation and might be cured through developmental processes
* the attempts to cure developmental diseases (including cancers) through detection, cloning, stem cell therapy, and genetic engineering
* the attempt to cure traumatic and degenerative disease through regeneration.

Table of contents: 

Part 1 Principles of Developmental Biology
Chapter 1 Developmental biology. The anatomical tradition
Chapter 2 Life cycles and the evolution of developmental patterns
Chapter 3 Principles of experimental embryology
Chapter 4 The genetic core of development
Chapter 5 The paradigm of differential gene expression
Chapter 6 Cell-cell communication in development

Part 2 Early Embryonic Development
Chapter 7 Fertilization: Beginning a new organism
Chapter 8 Early development in selected invertebrates
Chapter 9 The genetics of axis specification in Drosophila
Chapter 10 Early development and axis formation in amphibians
Chapter 11 The early development of vertebrates: Fish, birds, and mammals

Part 3 Later Embryonic Development
Chapter 12 The emergence of the ectoderm: The central nervous system and the epidermis
Chapter 13 Neural crest cells and axonal specificity
Chapter 14 Paraxial and intermediate mesoderm
Chapter 15 Lateral plate mesoderm and endoderm
Chapter 16 Development of the tetrapod limb
Chapter 17 Sex determination
Chapter 18 Metamorphosis, regeneration, and aging
Chapter 19 The saga of the germ line

Part 4 Ramifications of Developmental Biology
Chapter 20 An overview of plant development
Chapter 21 Medical implications of developmental biology
Chapter 22 Environmental regulation of animal development
Chapter 23 Developmental mechanisms of evolutionary change

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