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View all copies of this ISBN edition:. Synopsis About this title The Eighth Edition of Developmental Biology expands its coverage of the mechanisms of development, the roles that environmental factors play in development, the medical applications of our knowledge of development, and the roles that development plays in evolution, highlighting all the incredible advances that have been made in the last three years.
Part 3 treats later embryonic development and meticulously covers the derivatives of each germ layer. Processes involved in the ectoderm forming the central nervous system and epidermis, the fates of the neural-crest cells and axonal specification, partitioning of the mesoderm to form the body cavities, muscles, and organs, as well as the formation of the respiratory and digestive tract from the endoderm, are well written and clearly described. This section also covers the formation of the tetrapod limb, sex determination, metamorphosis, regeneration, and aging.
While much of the text covers animal development, Gilbert, with the help of Susan R. Singer, dedicates chapter 20 solely to the development of plants. The model organisms of plant development include the pea plant a prototypical angiosperm , maize , and Arabidopsis.
The events throughout the life cycle of these plants are described with details on recent findings from mutational analysis of plant genes. Gilbert makes a point to go to leading scientists to get the most recent findings on each topic.
This edition covers topics that have been in the forefront of discussions at annual meetings around the world and are also the topics of the funding trends in the leading funding agencies. These include stem cell niches, microRNAs, sperm—egg attraction and binding, left—right gene expression asymmetry, heart chamber specification, neural-crest cell specification and differentiation, somite formation, human brain growth genes, the embryonic origin of tendons, new sources of muscle precursor cells, sex determination pathways in the brain, newly discovered mechanisms of teratogenesis, the effects of endocrine disruptors on human development, the effects of maternal nutrition on gene expression, and susceptibility to disease in the adult offspring.
The book also covers controversial discussions over digit specification in birds and dinosaurs and whether mammalian blastomere fate is biased at the first division. I have used Scott Gilbert's Developmental biology text since the second edition. Each new edition has added more information and touched on new areas of interest. The eighth edition continues in that tradition giving new information, adding more visual graphics, access to the companion Website Author Webpage , and including a copy of an interactive CD-Rom Vade Mecum2: An Interactive Guide to Developmental Biology in each book.
Web sites are listed throughout for the conscientious student who is curious to know more about a particular subject. These web links also allow Gilbert to cover the historical perspective and classical experiments while moving on to the current literature within the text. I highly recommend this book for upper level undergraduate students and graduate students. The amount of information and coverage of complex material may prove to be a challenge for lower level undergraduate students.
It can, however, serve as a very good reference book for all students but may require supplemental handouts to abridge the wealth of information.
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