Includes: Types of Skeletal Tissues; Invertebrate Cartilages; Intermediate Tissues; An Evolutionary Perspective; Horns and Ossicones; Antlers; Tendons and Sesamoids; Embryonic Stem Cells; Stem Cells in Adults; Osteo- and Chondroprogenitor Cells; Dedifferentiation Provides Progenitor Cells for Jaws and Long Bones; Dedifferentiation and Urodele Limb Regeneration; And much more!
?Complete coverage of every aspect of bone and cartilage ?Full of interesting and unusual facts ?The only book available that integrates development and evolution of the skeleton ?Treats all levels from molecular to clinical, embryos to evolution ?Written in a lively, accessible style ?Extensively illustrated and referenced ?Integrates analysis of differentiation, growth and patterning ?Covers all the vertebrates as well as invertebrate cartilages ?Identifies the stem cells in embryos and adults that can make skeletal tissues
I have been interested in and studying skeletal tissues since my undergraduate days in Australia in the 1960s. Those early studies on the development of secondary cartilage in embryonic birds, first published in 1967, have come full circle with the discovery of secondary cartilage in dinosaurs12. Bird watching really is flying reptile watching. Skeletal tissue development and evolution, the embryonic origins of skeletal tissues (especially those that arise from neural crest cells), and integrating development and evolution in what is now known as evo-devo have been my primary preoccupations over the past 50+ years.
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