Developmental BiologyThe fifth edition adds the ecological dimension to its integration of molecular, cellular, and organismal approaches, with a new chapter concerning the ways by which the environment effects the phenotype of the organism. Other changes which reflect developments in the field include an earlier, more complete introduction to gene activity and signal transduction pathways, and new emphasis on the roles of paracrine factors in development--part five begins with an overview of the fibroblast growth factor TGF-beta, Wnt, and Hedgehog families of growth and differentiation factors. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
An Introduction to Developmental Biology | 1 |
The evolution | 16 |
Introduction and techniques | 35 |
The Pluripotency of Somatic | 43 |
Differential RNA synthesis | 49 |
Cloning from genomic DNA | 55 |
Analyzing mRNA through cDNA libraries | 61 |
Finding rare messages by the polymerase chain | 66 |
Cytoplasmic localization in mollusc embryos | 515 |
Cell specification in the nematode Caenorhabditis | 521 |
Asymmetrical cell divisions in later development | 530 |
Coda | 538 |
THE ORIGINS OF ANTERIORPOSTERIOR POLARITY | 545 |
The segmentation genes | 559 |
The homeotic selector genes | 569 |
THE GENERATION OF DORSALVENTRAL POLARITY | 577 |
Antisense | 73 |
The cellular basis | 79 |
The molecular basis of cellcell adhesions | 88 |
Patterns of Development | 121 |
Action at | 128 |
Gamete Binding and Recognition | 135 |
Creating | 167 |
Spiral holoblastic cleavage | 175 |
The cytoskeletal mechanisms of mitosis | 201 |
Reorganizing | 209 |
Gastrulation in fish | 218 |
Gastrulation in birds | 233 |
The Shaping and Bending of the Neural Plate | 259 |
Differentiation of the neural tube | 265 |
Neuronal types | 276 |
THE NEURAL CREST | 284 |
The developmental potency of trunk neural crest | 291 |
The cardiac neural crest | 296 |
Axonal specificity | 307 |
Guidance by the extracellular | 313 |
Guidance by diffusible | 320 |
Target selection | 326 |
Muscle Building and the MyoD Family | 349 |
ENDODERM | 380 |
Mechanisms of Cellular Differentiation | 391 |
Enhancer structure and function | 402 |
DNAbending proteins | 423 |
Transcriptional regulation of gene | 431 |
Topoisomerases and Gene Transcription | 453 |
Control of development | 461 |
Mechanisms of eukaryotic translation | 472 |
Mechanisms for the translational regulation of oocyte | 481 |
Specification of Cell Fate and the Embryonic Axes | 505 |
AXES AND ORGAN PRIMORDIA | 585 |
Specification of cell fate | 591 |
Potency and Oocyte | 597 |
The Nieuwkoop center | 606 |
Homeobox Genes in Neural Specification | 628 |
Establishment of body axes | 635 |
Dorsalventral and leftright axes in mammals | 647 |
Cellular Interactions During Organ Formation | 653 |
Epithelialmesenchymal interactions | 663 |
Morphogenesis of the Mammalian Kidney | 673 |
Development of the tetrapod | 701 |
Metamorphosis in insects | 746 |
Multiple hormonal interactions in mammary gland | 762 |
Sex determination | 768 |
Chromosomal sex determination in mammals | 774 |
Autosomal | 780 |
Chromosomal sex determination in Drosophila | 788 |
Hermaphroditism | 795 |
Environmental regulation of 21 | 805 |
Polyphenism and reaction | 813 |
The continuing plasticity of development | 822 |
Teratogenic agents | 828 |
Geneticenvironmental interactions | 837 |
22 | 843 |
Meiosis | 850 |
of evolutionary change | 883 |
The prerequisite for changing evolution | 891 |
Developmental constraints | 898 |
Homologous pathways of development | 909 |
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