內容簡介
A classic gets a new coauthor and a new approach: Developmental Biology, Eleventh Edition, keeps the excellent writing, accuracy, and enthusiasm of the Gilbert Developmental Biology book, streamlines it, adds innovative electronic supplements, and creates a new textbook for those teaching Developmental Biology to a new generation. Several new modes of teaching are employed in the new Gilbert and Barresi textbook. The videos explaining development--as well as those from Mary Tyler's Vade Mecum--are referenced throughout the book, and several other valuable new elements have been added.
Additional updates include:
* An increased emphasis on stem cells, which are covered extensively and early in the book.
* Sex determination and gametogenesis, instead of being near the end of the volume, are up front, prior to fertilization.
* Greatly expanded coverage of neural development, comprising a unit unto itself.
* Coverage of new experiments on morphogenesis and differentiation, as well as new techniques such as CRISPR.
作者介紹
作者簡介
Scott F. Gilbert
Scott F. Gilbert is Howard A. Schneiderman Professor Emeritus at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Helsinki Institute of Biotechnology. He teaches developmental biology, developmental genetics, and the history of biology. After receiving his B.A. from Wesleyan University, he pursued his graduate and postdoctoral research at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Gilbert is the recipient of several awards, including the first Viktor Hamburger Award for excellence in developmental biology education, the Alexander Kowalevsky Prize for evolutionary developmental biology, honorary degrees from the Universities of Helsinki and Tartu, and the Medal of François I from the Collège de France. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, and on the International Advisory Board for the National Institute of Basic Biology in Japan. He has been chair of the Professional Development and Education Committee of the Society for Developmental Biology. His research pursues the developmental genetic mechanisms by which the turtle forms its shell and the mechanisms by which plasticity and symbionts contribute to development.
Michael J. F. Barresi
Michael J. F. Barresi is a Professor at Smith College in the department of Biological Sciences and Program in Neuroscience. Dr. Barresi was a Biology major and Studio Art minor at Merrimack College. After he received his B.A., Dr. Barresi pursued his doctoral research on muscle fiber type development at Wesleyan University in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen Devoto. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Rolf Karlstrom's laboratory at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, investigating the development of commissure formation in the zebrafish forebrain. At Smith College, Dr. Barresi's laboratory investigates the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing the development of neural stem cells, commissure formation, and neurodevelopmental responses to environmental teratogens. He has been a member of the Professional Development and Education Committee of the Society for Developmental Biology. Dr. Barresi is an innovator in the classroom, pioneering the use of web conferencing, documentary movie making, and active learning pedagogies in Developmental Biology. Since 2005, he has successfully taught course-based research laboratories in Developmental Biology. In connection with his NSF CAREER award, Dr. Barresi created the "Student Scientists" outreach program to help train and inspire primary and secondary education teachers to infuse investigative curriculum in their classrooms. He was the recipient of the 2012 Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching at Smith College.
目錄
I: Patterns and Processes of Becoming: A Framework for Understanding Animal Development
Chapter 1 Making New Bodies: Mechanisms of Developmental Organization
Chapter 2 Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning
Chapter 3 Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation
Chapter 4 Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis
Chapter 5 Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches
II: Gametogenesis and Fertilization: The Circle of Sex
Chapter 6 Sex Determination and Gametogenesis
Chapter 7 Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism
III: Early Development: Cleavage, Gastrulation, and Axis Formation
Chapter 8 Rapid Specification in Snails and Nematodes
Chapter 9 The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila
Chapter 10 Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates
Chapter 11 Amphibians and Fish
Chapter 12 Birds and Mammals
IV: Building with Ectoderm: The Vertebrate Nervous System and Epidermis
Chapter 13 Neural Tube Formation and Patterning
Chapter 14 Brain Growth
Chapter 15 Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity
Chapter 16 Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis
V: Building with Mesoderm and Endoderm: Organogenesis
Chapter 17 Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives
Chapter 18 Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidney
Chapter 19 Development of the Tetrapod Limb
Chapter 20 The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration
VI: Postembryonic Development
Chapter 21 Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development
Chapter 22 Regeneration
Chapter 23 Aging and Senescence
VII: Development in Wider Contexts
Chapter 24 Development in Health and Disease: Birth Defects, Endocrine Disruptors, and Cancer
Chapter 25 Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development
Chapter 26 Development and Evolution: Development Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change
