Developmental biology Books

This detailed exposition gives background and context to how modern biogeography has got to where it is now. For biogeographers and other researchers interested in biodiversity and the evolution of life on islands, Biogeology: Evolution in a Changing...

Few, if any, genes have had the same level of impact on the field of evolutionary-developmental biology (evo-devo) as the Hox genes. These genes are renowned for their roles in patterning the body plans and development of the animal kingdom. This is...

An understanding of gonorynchiform morphology and systematic inter- and intra-relationships has proven vital to a better understanding of the evolution of lower teleosts in general, and more specifically of groups such as the clupeiforms (e.g., herrings...

Can an evolutionary perspective be integrated in day-to-day practice and is it of value in medical education and training? If so, when and how? Highlighting exciting areas of research into the evolutionary basis of health and disease, Medicine and...

The 26 recognized minor phyla comprise aberrant clades, as most of them terminate as blind offshoots. Untied from the discussion on their phylogenesis of minor phyla, this book is largely devoted, for the first time, to aspects of reproduction and...

Exposures to dietary, environmental, hormonal, and other stressors during this window have been associated with an increased risk of poor health outcomes, some of which are irreversible. This book explores this concept across biological disciplines,...

An indispensable guide to the revolutionary advances in pregnancy and childbirth, Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy contains trailblazing science that explains: Why the first eight weeks are the most important and how to optimize themWhich prenatal genetic...

This book is an overview of sensory maps. The eight primary sensory maps of vertebrates have unique features and use distinct molecular cues. As an introduction and overview, the book provides a short overview for all eight sensory senses - olfactory,...

Many complex traits define the primate condition, including behaviors as fundamental as locomotion and traits as scrutinized as the dentition, and their study reveals dramatic evolutionary change across the primates. Genetic modifications are at the...

This textbook presents essential and accessible information about human embryology including practical information on human health issues and recent advances in human reproductive technology. Starting with biological basics of cell anatomy and...

The book illustrates how Darwin's theory has evolved, about the development of the biological world before Darwin, and great changes that took place with the incorporation of statistics, and after Darwin's death of genetics and mathematics. The formation...

The study of plant development using molecular and genetic techniques is rapidly becoming one of the most active areas of research on flowering plants. Developmental Biology of Flowering Plants relates classical developmental...

The Geometric Induction of Bone Formation describes new biomimetic biomaterials that offer mechanistic osteogenic surfaces for the autonomous and spontaneous induction of bone formation without the addition of osteogenic soluble molecular signals of the...

Chimpanzees, including common chimpanzees and bonobos, are our closest living relatives. This book, which is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of the genus Pan, adopts the same format as the photographic atlases of Gorilla and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Primate Craniofacial Function and Biology is an integrative volume with broad coverage of current research on primate craniofacial biology and function. Topic headings include: the mammalian perspective on primate craniofacial...

Although a human embryo possesses so much grace that the untutored spectator can only admire it in awe, this minute and humble embryo is still almost unknown to many. For some, it seems to belong to the animal kingdom only;...

This monograph presents a general mathematical theory for biological growth. It provides both a conceptual and a technical foundation for the understanding and analysis of problems arising in biology and physiology. The theory and methods are illustrated...

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of compreh- sive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory - search. The volumes are aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing...

A presentation of all aspects of neural crest cell origins (embryological and evolutionary) development and evolution; neural crest cell behavior (migration) and anomalies (neurocristopathies and birth defects) that arise from...

Section I. Human Studies.- Epidemiology of Hypospadias.- Endocrine Evaluation of Hypospadias.- Endocrine Abnormalities in Boys with Hypospadias.- Genetic and Clinical Studies on Hypospadias.- Section II. Mechanism of Genital Development.- Development of...

Mammary Development: Growth and Growth Factors: The Environment of the Mammary Secretory Cell (C.H. Knight). Role of Bovine Placental Lactogen in Intercellular Signalling during Mammary Growth and Lactation (R.J. Collier et al.). Expression of Hox ...

Introduction: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Neurodevelopment of Schizophrenia; J.M. Hollister, et al. The Developing Brain: Fetal Development and Schizophrenia: Historical Observations from Teratology; W.O. McClure. Pathology of...

General Modes of Pattern Formation; J.D. Murray. Process and Outcome; P. Alberch, M.J. Blanco. Retinoic Acid Cannot be the Morphogen in Reaction Diffusion Models for the Formation of the Chick Wing Bud; Y. Almirantis, S. Papageorgiou. Pattern...

Cell Signal Transduction, Second Messengers and Protein Phosphorylation in Health and Disease (A.M. Municio). Tyrosine Phosphatases in Cell Cycle and Transformation (E.H. Fischer). Hydrolysis of Phospholipids and Activation of Protein Kinase C for ...

My HalfLife in Teratology-As it Relates to the Origins of Cancer (R.W. Miller). Intergenerational Factors in Pregnancy Outcomes (I. Emanuel). Epidemiological Studies of Congenital Abnormalities in Hungary (A. Czeizel). A Contemporary Overview of ...

Regulation of the Early Development of the Nervous System by Growth Factors; P.F. Bartlett, et al. Polysialic Acid as a Regulator of CellCell Interactions during Muscle Innervation; U. Rutishauser. The O2A Cell Lineage; G. Levi, C. Agresti. Cell Fate...

The Developing Brain: The Internal Environment of the Developing Brain; K.M. Dziegielewska, N.R. Saunders. Neuronal Migration and Differentiation During Normal and Genetically-Perturbed Development of the Hippocampal Formation; R.S. Nowakowski. ...

Mesoblast Anlage Fields in the Upper Layer of the Chicken Blastoderm at Stage 5V; H. Bortier, L.C.A. Vakaet. The Avian Marginal Zone and its Role in Early Development; H. Eyal-Giladi. Early Mesoderm Formation in the Mouse Embryo; K.A. Lawson, R.A...

1. Prologue.- 2. Is Estrogen A Cellular Signal for Female Genital Tract Epithelium?.- 3. Reciprocal Tissue Interactions in Morphogenesis and Hormonal Responsiveness of the Female Reproductive Tract.- 4. Qualitative and Quantitative Morphology of...

Section I Selected Aquatic Plant Organisms.- Dasycladaceae: A Family of Giant unicellular Algae Ideal for Research.- Acetabularia: A Giant Unicellular Organism for Studying Polarity.- Model Algal System to Study Plant Development.- Section II Selected...

This volume details the different ways that nocturnal primates avoid predators. It is a first of its kind within primatology, and is therefore the only work giving a broad overview of predation - nocturnal primate predation theory in particular - in the...

Gap junction channels are a group of intercellular channels expressed in tissues and organs to synchronize many physiological processes. Pannexin channels are a family of closely related large-pore channels virtually unknown a decade ago. The field of...

The cause of many of the adverse reproductive outcomes and developmental diseases among offspring is not well understood. Most of the epidemiologic and experimental animal research has focused on the relationship between...

The past decade has seen a steady increase in studies oflemur behavior and ecology. As a result, there is much novel information on newly studied populations, and even newly discovered species, that has not yet been published...

In 1964, the Fertilization and Gamete Physiology Research Training Program (FERGAP) was established at the Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Over the course of the next 12 years, under the directorship...

The frozen-hydrated specimen is the principal element that unifies the subject of low­ temperature microscopy, and frozen-hydrated specimens are what this book is all about. Freezing the sample as quickly as possible and then...

... an adult poet is simply an individual in a state of arrested development-in brief, a sort of moron. Just as all of us, in utero, pass through a stage in which we are tadpoles, ... so all of us pass through a state, in our...

It is a source of great satisfaction to us that a Second Edition of this treatise should be called for, especially because it has given us the opportunity to produce, we believe, a better book. Eighteen chapters, amounting to...

This volume covers aspects of ecology, behavior, genetics, taxonomy, 'cultural' patterns, hunting by non-human primates, physiology, dietary chemistry, and ecotourism, in several major clades of primates from galagos and...

Of the three organizers of this NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Neocortex: Onto­ geny and Phylogeny", one derived most of his knowledge about neocortex from studies on birds, another had never studied any animal but the cat...