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- BookScott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College and the University of Helsinki, Michael J.F. Barresi, Smith College.Contents:
Part I. Patterns and processes of becoming: a framework for understanding animal development
1. Making new bodies: mechanisms of developmental organization
2. Specifying identity: mechanisms of developmental patterning
3. Differential gene expression: mechanisms of cell differentiation
4. Cell-to-cell communication: mechanisms of morphogenesis
5. Stems cells: their potential and their niches
Part II. Gametogenesis and fertilization: the circle of sex
6. Sex determination and gametogenesis
7. Fertilization: beginning a new organism
Part III. Early development: cleavage, gastrulation, and axis formation
8. Rapid specification in snails and nematodes
9. The genetics of axis specification in Drosophila
10. Sea urchins and tunicates: deuterostome invertebrates
11. Amphibians and fish
12. Birds and mammals
Part IV. Building with ectoderm: the vertebrate nervous system and epidermis
13. Neural tube formation and patterning
14. Brain growth
15. Neural crest cells and axonal specificity
16. Ectodermal placodes and the epidermis
Part V. Building with mesoderm and endoderm: organogenesis
17. Paraxial mesoderm: the somites and their derivatives
18. Intermediate and lateral plate mesoderm: heart, blood, and kidneys
19. Development of the tetrapod limb
20. The endoderm: tubes and organs for digestion and respiration
Part IV. Postembryonic development
21. Metamorphosis: the hormonal reactivation of development
22. Regeneration
23. Aging and senescence
Part VII. Development in wider contexts
24. Development in health and disease: birth defects, endocrine disruptors, and cancer
25. Development and the environment: biotic, abiotic, and symbiotic regulation of development
26. Development and evolution: developmental mechanisms of evolutionary change.