Developmental Biology

by Scott F. Gilbert

Developmental Biology, Seventh Edition captures the richness, the intellectual excitement, and the wonder of contemporary developmental biology. It is written primarily for undergraduate biology majors but will be useful for introducing graduate students and medical students to developmental biology. In addition to exploring and synthesizing the organismal, cellular, and molecular aspects of animal development, the Seventh Edition expands its coverage of the medical, environmental, and evolutionary aspects of developmental biology. FEATURES OF THE SEVENTH EDITION A completely updated text integrates classical developmental biology with contemporary techniques, including the new material on vertebrate limb cell specification, microarrays, RNA interference, microtubular motors, floxed genes, vertebra formation, neural crest differentiation, neural crest specification, heart cell specification, herbicide-induced gonadal disruptions, pancreatic development, digit determination, tadpole deiodinases, insulin-like growth factors, developmental symbioses, and the developmental origins of feathers, jaws, and teeth during evolution. A new chapter on medical implications of developmental biology • The news is full of developmental biology and its medical implications. Therapeutic cloning and cancer therapies, in vitro fertilization, congenital anomalies, and teratogenesis are major concerns not only of scientists but of all citizens. Chapter 21, "Medical Implications of Human Development," brings these topics together and * the regulation of fertility
* the identification of genetic defects that affect development
* the identification of teratogenic compounds that affect development
* the identification of factors in the maternal environment which may influence the health of the fetus or the adult
* the realization that cancers can be disruptions of developmental regulation and might be cured through developmental processes
* the attempts to cure developmental diseases (including cancers) through detection, cloning, stem cell therapy, and genetic engineering
* the attempt to cure traumatic and degenerative disease through regeneration.

Genres: Biology, Science, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Evolution, Medicine, School

838 pages, Hardcover

First published November 13, 1988

About the author

Scott Frederick Gilbert is an American evolutionary developmental biologist and historian of biology. Scott Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki.

Reviews

[Salma El-Shafie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! i used to walk around all campus carrying it, not minding how heavy it is. all the chapters are incredibly interesting, I wouldn't close the book until I finish the chapter and absorb and understand how a certain aspect of embryo development happens. each chapter is full of awesome experiments that make you conclude the facts instead of reading them straight away which would have been boring.

This definately is my favorite biology book. it deserves a 5 star rating!and you don't have to be a science student/person to enjoy it :)

[Sintija Valucka · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book for those who are studying developmental biology, are developmental biologists or are simply deeply interested in this subject.

[Nun · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have read some chapters of this book as a resource of my developmental biology course. In some parts, it was as if a long literature review. This, beside having a thorough overview of all aspects of developmental biology, it has sometimes blurred the major conclusions that can be drawn out.
(One confusion that we, in class, went through was that of molecular mechanisms of left-right axis in vertebrates). Which could be justified by the overall complexity of such a field and the vast ambiguity of its underlaying molecular mechanisms that are still unknown.

[Manas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This Book is great for critical studies on Developmental biology. This book covers all areas of it. Good stuff.

[Elari · Rating 5 out of 5]

This remains my favorite book--and class--out of my five years as an undergraduate.

[Bogdan Toma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Top notch, the molecular complexity underlying embryological development blew my mind at the time I read this book. Made me daydream about migrating neural crest cells and their diverging paths... 5/5

[Aamir Habib · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice book

[Umesh Yogi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice book

[Muhammad Adil · Rating 4 out of 5]

I want to read a book but how we can see.

[Jordan Matz · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was terrible! I thought it had way too much information in so many parts that made it difficult to get through and in some parts it seemed as if there was not enough information. Overall, the set-up was confusing-- especially taking it model system by model system and I was unimpressed.

[TheDiversePhDReads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good refernce text for students and for developmental biologists.

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

needs a glossary!

[Eric Hexem · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a good book! Insightful and interesting.

[Aya · Rating 5 out of 5]

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