Lewis Wolpert, Cheryll Tickle, Alfonso Martinez Arias

Principles of Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

All the key principles of developmental biology that students need to know, underpinned by experimental evidence, and an exploration of the molecular basis of the subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 6th edition
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 267mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1886g
• ISBN-13: 9780198800569
• ISBN-10: 0198800568
• Artikelnr.: 54756783

Autorenporträt

Lewis Wolpert is Emeritus Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine, in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK. He is the author of The Triumph of the Embryo, A Passion for Science, The Unnatural Nature of Science, and Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Cheryll Tickle is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK Alfonso Martinez Arias is Professor of Developmental Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, UK

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: History and basic concepts
* 2: Drosophila life cycle and development of the body plan
* 3: Vertebrate life cycles, experimental techniques and human
development
* 4: Laying down the vertebrate body plan: Xenopus and zebrafish
* 5: Laying down and completing the vertebrate body plan: chick and
mouse
* 6: Development of nematodes and sea urchins
* 7: Morphogenesis: change in form in the early embryo
* 8: Cell differentiation and stem cells
* 9: Germ cells, fertilization and sex
* 10: Organogenesis
* 11: Development of the nervous system
* 12: Growth, post-embryonic development and regeneration
* 13: Plant life cycle and development
* 14: Evolution and development