List of headings
Text acknowledgments
Figure acknowledgments
Chapter 1: History and basic concepts
The origins of developmental biology
A conceptual tool kit
Chapter 2: Model systems
Model organisms: vertebrates
Model organisms: invertebrates
Model systems: plants
Identifying developmental genes
Chapter 3: Patterning the vertebrate body plan I: axes and germ layers
Setting up the body axes
The origin and specification of the germ layers
Chapter 4: Patterning the vertebrate body plan II: the mesoderm and early nervous system
Somite formation and patterning
Neural induction and the role of the organizer
Chapter 5: Development of the Drosophila body plan
Maternal genes set up the body axes
Polarization of the body axes during oogenesis
Zygotic genes pattern the early embryo
Segmentation: activation of the pair-rule genes
Segment polarity genes and compartments
Segmentation: selector and homeotic genes
Chapter 6: Development of nematodes, sea urchins, ascidians, and slime molds
Nematodes
Echinoderms
Ascidians
Cellular slime molds
Chapter 7: Plant development
Embryonic development
Meristems
Flower development
Chapter 8: Morphogenesis: change in form in the early embryo
Cell adhesion
Cleavage and formation of the blastula
Gastrulation
Neural tube formation
Cell migration
Directed dilation
Chapter 9: Cell differentiation
The control of gene expression
Models of cell differentiation
The reversibility of patterns of gene activity
Chapter 10: Organogenesis
The chick limb
Insect wings and legs
The nematode vulva
Internal organs: heart, blood vessels, lungs, kidneys, and teeth
Chapter 11: Development of the nervous system
Specification of cell identity in the nervous system
The insect compound eye
Axonal guidance
Neuronal survival, synapse formation, and refinement
Chapter 12: Germ cells and sex
Determination of the sexual phenotype
The development of germ cells
Fertilization
Chapter 13: Regeneration
Limb regeneration
Regeneration in Hydra
Chapter 14: Growth and post-embryonic development
Growth
Molting and metamorphosis
Aging and senescence
Chapter 15: Evolution and development
Modification of development in evolution
Changes in the timing of developmental processes during evolution
Evolution off development
Glossary
Index
