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This undergraduate textbook synthesizes the organismal, cellular, and evolutionary aspects of animal development. The seventh edition adds a chapter on the medical implications of developmental biology. The CD-ROM contains 140 videos and 300 labeled photographs that walk through the life cycle of model organisms.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
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.


Book Info
Explores the organismal, cellular, and molecular aspects of animal development. Includes new material on vertebrate limb cell specification and the developmental origins of feathers, jaws, and teeth during evolution. Includes a new chapter on the medical implications of developmental biology, such as the identification of genetic defects that affect development. Previous ed: c2000.

ANNOTATION

Covers axonal specificity, gastrulation & reorganizing the embryonic cells, target selection, etc.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Increased emphasis on gene activity, signal transduction and the emphasis on the roles of paracrine factors in development.

SYNOPSIS

This undergraduate textbook synthesizes the organismal, cellular, and evolutionary aspects of animal development. The seventh edition adds a chapter on the medical implications of developmental biology. The CD-ROM contains 140 videos and 300 labeled photographs that walk through the life cycle of model organisms. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

FROM THE CRITICS

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The 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 developmentpart five begins with an overview of the fibroblast growth factor TGF-beta, Wnt, and Hedgehog families of growth and differentiation factors. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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