Developmental biology / Scott F. Gilbert, Michael J.F. Barresi. -- Eleventh edition. -- Sunderland, Massachusetts : Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers, c2016. – (58.13 /G466 /11th ed.)

Contents

I Patterns and Processes of Becoming: A Framework for Understanding Animal Development

CHAPTER 1  Making New Bodies: Mechanisms of Developmental Organization 1

CHAPTER 2  Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning 29

CHAPTER 3  Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation 45

CHAPTER 4  Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis 95

CHAPTER 5  Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches 143

II Gametogenesis and Fertilization: The Circle of Sex

CHAPTER 6  Sex Determination and Gametogenesis 181

CHAPTER 7  Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism 217

III Early Development: Cleavage, Gastrulation, and Axis Formation

CHAPTER 8  Rapid Specification in Snails and Nematodes 251

CHAPTER 9  The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila 277

CHAPTER 10  Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates 311

CHAPTER 11  Amphibians and Fish 333

CHAPTER 12  Birds and Mammals 379

IV Building with Ectoderm: The Vertebrate Nervous System and Epidermis

CHAPTER 13  Neural Tube Formation and Patterning 413

CHAPTER 14  Brain Growth 439

CHAPTER 15  Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity 463

CHAPTER 16  Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis 517

V Building with Mesoderm and Endoderm: Organogenesis

CHAPTER 17  Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives 539

CHAPTER 18  Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys 581

CHAPTER 19  Development of the Tetrapod Limb 613

CHAPTER 20  The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration 653

VI Posternbryonic Development

CHAPTER 21  Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development 671

CHAPTER 22  Regeneration 693

CHAPTER 23  Aging and Senescence 723

VII Development in Wider Contexts

CHAPTER 24  Development in Health and Disease: Birth Defects, Endocrine Disruptors, and Cancer 735

CHAPTER 25 Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development 763

CHAPTER 26  Development and Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change 785