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Coverage of the field in Instant Notes in Developmental Biology is current and focuses largely on the principles of embryonic development. It is designed to provide a clear summary of the principles of developmental biology in a compact and easily manageable structure.
| ISBN | 1859961533 | | Pages | 464 | | ISBN13 | 9781859961537 (What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 896 | | Imprint | Bios Scientific Publishers Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Instant Notes | | Publication date | 15 Jun 2000 | | Height (mm) | 170 | | Library of Congress | QH | | Width (mm) | 244 | | DEWEY | 571.8 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Exams/tests/exercises |
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| | | Abbreviations | | | | | | Preface | | | | Sect. A | | First principles | | 1 | | A1 | | Basic concepts in development biology | | 1 | | A2 | | Cell fate and commitment | | 8 | | A3 | | Mechanism of developmental commitment | | 13 | | A4 | | Mosaic and regulative development | | 20 | | A5 | | Maintenance of differentiation | | 24 | | A6 | | Pattern formation and compartments | | 28 | | A7 | | Morphogenesis | | 38 | | Sect. B | | Experimental developmental biology | | 45 | | B1 | | Model organisms | | 45 | | B2 | | Developmental mutants | | 49 | | B3 | | Transgenic organisms in development | | 56 | | B4 | | Cellular and microsurgical techniques | | 64 | | Sect. C | | Genes in development | | 69 | | C1 | | Gene expression and regulation | | 69 | | C2 | | Chromatin and DNA methylation | | 77 | | C3 | | Signal transduction in development | | 85 | | C4 | | The cell division cycle | | 95 | | C5 | | The cytoskeleton, cell adhesion and the extracellular matrix | | 100 | | Sect. D | | Unicellular models | | 107 | | D1 | | Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis | | 107 | | D2 | | Mating type switching in yeast | | 112 | | D3 | | Aggregation and culmination in Dictyostelium discoideum | | 117 | | Sect. E | | Sex, gametes and fertilization | | 125 | | E1 | | Germ line specification | | 125 | | | More... | | |
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