Principles of Development

Lewis Wolpert (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

656 Seiten

2011 | 4th Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-955428-7 (ISBN)

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Principles of Development reveals the universal principles that govern the process of development, illustrating how a highly-complex living organism forms from just a single fertilized egg.

The process of biological development is an amazing feat of tightly regulated cellular behaviours - differentiation, movement, and growth - powerful enough to result in the emergence of a highly complex living organism from a single cell, the fertilized egg. Principles of Development clearly illustrates the universal principles that govern this process of development, in a succinct and accessible style. Written by two highly respected and influential developmental biologists, Lewis Wolpert and Cheryll Tickle, it focuses on those systems that best illuminate the common principles covered in the text, and avoids overwhelming the reader with encyclopaedic detail. With co-authors whose expertise spans the discipline, Principles of Development combines a careful exposition of the subject with insights from some of the world's pioneering researchers in developmental biology, guiding the student from the fundamentals through to the latest discoveries in the field. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre to accompany Principles of Development features For registered adopters of the text: Electronic artwork: Figures from the book are available to download, for use in lectures.
Journal Club: Suggested research papers and discussion questions linked to topics featured in the book, guide the process of assimilating knowledge from the research literature. For students: Web links: Recommended websites linked to each chapter guide students to further sources of information. Flashcard glossary: Glossary from the text in interactive flashcard format helps revise key terms and concepts.

1. Introduction to development; 2. Development of the Drosophila body plan; 3. Patterning the vertebrate body plan I : Life cycles and experimental techniques; 4. Patterning the vertebrate body plan II: Axes and germ layers; 5. Patterning the vertebrate body plan III: The early nervous system and the somites; 6. Development of nematodes, sea urchins and ascidians; 7. Plant development; 8. Morphogenesis: Change in form in the early embryo; 9. Germ cells, fertilization and sex; 10. Cell differentiation and stem cells; 11. Organogenesis; 12. Development of the nervous system; 13. Growth and post-embryonic development; 14. Regeneration; 15. Evolution and development

Co-Autor	Cheryll Tickle
Zusatzinfo	line drawings and halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	204 x 268 mm
Gewicht	10 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
Schlagworte	Biologie
ISBN-10	0-19-955428-5 / 0199554285
ISBN-13	978-0-19-955428-7 / 9780199554287
Zustand	Neuware