Developmental Biology 12e Student Resources

The Making of a Body and a Field: Introduction to Developmental Biology

Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning

Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation

Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis

Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches

Sex Determination and Gametogenesis

Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism

Snails, Flowers, and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patters of Specification

The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila

Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates

Amphibians and Fish

Developmental Biology 12e Student Resources

Amphibians and Fish

Birds and Mammals

Neural Tube Formation and Patterning

Brain Growth

Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity

Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis

Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives

Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys

Development of the Tetrapod Limb

The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration

Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development

Regeneration: The Development of Rebuilding

Development in Health and Disease: Birth Defects, Endocrine Disruptors, and Cancer

Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation and Development

Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development

Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation and Development

Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development

Development and Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

The Making of a Body and a Field: Introduction to Developmental Biology

Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning

Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches

Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism

Snails, Flowers, and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patters of Specification

The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila

Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates

Amphibians and Fish

Birds and Mammals

Brain Growth

Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity

Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives

Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys

Development of the Tetrapod Limb

The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration

Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development

Regeneration: The Development of Rebuilding

Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development

The Making of a Body and a Field: Introduction to Developmental Biology

Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis

Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism

Snails, Flowers, and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patters of Specification

The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila

Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates

Neural Tube Formation and Patterning

Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity

Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis

Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys

Development of the Tetrapod Limb

The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration

Regeneration: The Development of Rebuilding (coming soon)

Regeneration: The Development of Rebuilding

Development in Health and Disease: Birth Defects, Endocrine Disruptors, and Cancer

Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development

Development and Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

The Making of a Body and a Field: Introduction to Developmental Biology

Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning

Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation

Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis

Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches

Sex Determination and Gametogenesis

Amphibians and Fish

Birds and Mammals

Neural Tube Formation and Patterning

Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity

Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives

Development of the Tetrapod Limb

Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation and Development

Development and Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

Aging and Senescence

The Making of a Body and a Field: Introduction to Developmental Biology

Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning

Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation

Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis

Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches

Sex Determination and Gametogenesis

Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism

Snails, Flowers, and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patters of Specification

The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila

Making New Bodies: Mechanisms of Developmental Organization

Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates

Amphibians and Fish

Birds and Mammals

Neural Tube Formation and Patterning

Brain Growth

Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity

Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis

Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives

Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys

Development of the Tetrapod Limb

Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning

The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration

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Further Development 1.1: When Does a Human Become a Person?

Further Development 1.2: The Cell Biology of Embryonic Cleavage

Further Development 1.3: Epigenesis and Preformationism

Further Development 1.4: Conklin’s Art and Science

Further Development 1.5: Important Transitions in Animal Evolution

Further Development 1.6: The Developmental Evolution of Life

Further Development 2.1: The Germ Plasm Theory

Further Development 2.2: Squeezing the Conditions of Specification

Further Development 2.3: A Rainbow of Cell Identities

Further Development 3.1: Genomic Equivalence and Cloning

Further Development 3.2: The Mediator Complex: Linking Enhancer and Promoter

Further Development 3.3: Combinatorial Association

Further Development 3.4: The Mechanisms of DNA Methylation

Further Development 3.5: Mechanisms of DNA Methylation During Genomic Imprinting

Further Development 3.6: Poised Chromatin

Further Development 3.7: Chromatin Diminution

Further Development 3.8: The Nuclear Envelope’s Role in Gene Regulation

Further Development 3.9: Insulators: Protecting Genomic Areas from Transcription Factor Binding

Further Development 3.10: Transcription Factors with the Power to Cure Diabetes

Further Development 3.11: Control of Early Development by Pre-mRNA Selection

Further Development 3.12: So You Think You Know What a Gene Is?

Further Development 3.13: Splicing Enhancers and Recognition Factors

Further Development 3.14: Translational Regulation in Frogs and Flies

Further Development 3.15: Learn How a Mutation in a 3′ UTR Results in Bulging Biceps in Beef

Further Development 3.16: Stored Messenger RNA in Brain Cells

Further Development 3.17: Techniques of RNA and DNA Analysis

Further Development 3.17.1: Techniques of Molecular Biology

Further Development 3.17.2: Transgenic Cells and Gene Knockouts

Further Development 3.17.3: Studying DNA Regulatory Elements

Further Development 3.17.4: Determining Methylation Status: Bisulfite Mapping

Further Development 3.17.5: Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR)

Further Development 3.17.6: Microarrays and Macroarrays

Further Development 3.17.7: In Situ Hybridizations+

Further Development 4.1: Type, Timing, and Border Formation

Further Development 4.2: Shape Change and Epithelia Morphogenesis: “The Force Is Strong in You”

Further Development 4.3: Integrins and Cell Death

Further Development 4.4: From Feathers to Claws and Frogs to Newts: Further Your Understanding of Induction

Further Development 4.5: The Insect Trachea: Combining Inductive Signals with Cadherin Regulation

Further Development 4.6: Downstream Events of the FGF Signal Transduction Cascade

Further Development 4.7: FGF Receptor Mutations

Further Development 4.8: Endosome Internalization:Morphogen Gradients Can Be Created by Literally Passing from One Cell to Another

Further Development 4.9: Notch Mutations

Further Development 4.10: Hippo Signaling: An Integrator of Pathways

Further Development 5.1: Drosophila Testes Stem Cell Niche

Further Development 5.2: The Subgranular Zone Niche

Further Development 5.3: Just Another Notch on the Clock During Neurogenesis in the V-SVZ

Further Development 5.4: Were HSCs Somehow Born from Bone to then Reside in the Marrow?

Further Development 5.5: Other Stem Cells Supporting Adult Tissue Maintenance and Regeneration

Further Development 5.6: A Discussion of the Challenges Using ESCs

Further Development 6.1: Sex Determination and Social Perceptions

Further Development 6.2: The Ovary Pathway: The Importance of β-Catenin

Further Development 6.3: Finding the Elusive Testis-Determining Factor

Further Development 6.4: Fibroblast Growth Factor 9

Further Development 6.5: Genes Controlled by Sry and Sox9

Further Development 6.6: The Origins of Genitalia

Further Development 6.7: Descent of the Testes

Further Development 6.8: Dosage Compensation

Further Development 6.9: Brain Sex and Gender

Further Development 6.10: Brain Sex in Drosophila

Further Development 6.11: Theodor Boveri and the Formation of the Germ Line

Further Development 6.12: Modification of Meiosis

Further Development 6.13: The Biochemistry of Oocyte Maturation

Further Development 7.1 The Origins of Fertilization Research

Further Development 7.1.1 Early History of Fertilization

Further Development 7.1.2 The Mechanism of Fertilization

Further Development 7.1.3 On the Nature of the Process of Fertilization

Further Development 7.2 The Egg and Its Environment

Further Development 7.3 Mechanisms of Sperm Chemotaxis

Further Development 7.4 Sea Urchin Acrosome Reaction and Sperm Binding

Further Development 7.5: Blocks to Polyspermy--the Fertilization Reaction in Echinarachnius Parma

Further Development 7.6 The Cortical Granule Reaction

Further Development 7.7 The IP3 Pathway Activates the Egg

Further Development 7.8 Rules of Evidence

Further Development 7.9 Mechanisms of Capacitation

Further Development 7.10 Elements of the Sperm Activate Mammalian Eggs

Further Development 7.11 The Non-equivalence of Mammalian Pronuclei

Further Development 7.12 A Social Critique of Fertilization Research