Developmental Biology

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-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis.- 5. Stem Cells and Their Niches: Cell Generation and Regeneration.- Gametogenesis and Fertilization: The Circle of Sex.- 6. Sex Determination and Gametogenesis.- 7. Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism.- 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.- Building with Ectoderm: The Vertebrate Nervous System and Epidermis.- 13. Neural Tube Formation and Patterning.- 14. Brain Growth.- 15. Axons and Neural Crest Cells.-16. Epidermis and Ectodermal Placodes.- Building with Mesoderm and Endoderm: Organogenesis.- 17. Paraxial Mesoderm: Segmentation and Somite Differentiation.- 18. Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Blood, Heart, and Kidneys.- 19. The Tetrapod Limb.- 20. Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration.- Postembryonic Development.- 21. Metamorphosis.- 22. Regeneration.- 23. Aging.- 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.

Scott F. Gilbert