Table of Contents

PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY - Developmental Biology: The Anatomical Tradition - Life Cycles and the Evolution of Developmental Patterns - Principles of Experimental Embryology - The Genetic Core of Development - The Paradigm of Differential Gene Expression - Cell-Cell Communication in Development - EARLY EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT - Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism - Early Development in Selected Invertebrates - The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosphilia - Early Development and Axis Formation in Amphibians - The Early Development of Vertebrates: Fish, Birds and Mammals - LATER EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT - The Emergence of the Ectoderm: The Central Nervous System and the Epidermis - Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity - Paraxial and Intermediate Mesoderm - Lateral plate Mesoderm and Endoderm - Development of the Tetrapod Limb - Sex determination - Metamorphosis, Regeneration, and Aging - The Saga of the Germ Line - RAMIFICATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGY - An Overview of Plant Development; S.R.Singer - Medical Implications of Developmental Development - Environmental Regulation of Animal Development - Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

About the Author

SCOTT F.GILBERT is Howard A.Schneiderman Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College and teaches developmental biology, developmental genetics and the history of biology