Résumé
- Focuses on common principles, rather than attempting to offer encyclopaedic coverage of the field: ideal coverage and depth for an undergraduate course, rather than overwhelming detail.
- Carefully selected further reading articles stimulate the student to explore the subject at a more advanced level, encouraging them to engage with the primary literature - the best resource to explore the details of very latest research.
- Beautifully clear full colour illustrations help the student to visualise the often conceptually-challenging principles being introduced, making the principles easier to grasp, and enhancing proper understanding.
- Numerous summary sections, both in words and diagrams, allow students to recognize and fully digest the important concepts, and are useful for revision.
- Online resource centre offers resources for both lecturer and student, making the book as effective as possible as both a teaching and learning tool.
New to this edition
- Increased emphasis on the molecular mechanisms of development reflects the direction of modern research, presenting to the student a true picture of developmental biology today.
- An improved organisation sees the chapter on the development of the invertebrate body plan placed before the vertebrate body plan, building the student's confidence through the understanding of a simple system, before progressing to a more complicated one.
- Model organisms are now introduced in the context of the systems and processes that they are used to probe, helping the student to see how these organisms are an integral part of the process of conducting research, and how they are used as tools to answer different biological questions.
- An expanded glossary, which includes definitions of new terminology, helps students to become rapidly familiar with the often daunting range of terms used to describe this subject.
- Greater coverage of organogenesis, oogenesis, spermatogenesis and evolutionary development reflect the continued expansion in our knowledge of these topics, giving the lecturer the flexibility to explore different topics to different depths, depending on the demands of their curriculum.
The process of biological development is an amazing feat of tightly-regulated cellular growth and patterning, powerful enough to result in the emergence of a highly-complex living organism from just a single fertilized egg. But how does biological development occur? How can a single fertilized egg give rise to the limbs, organs, and other tissues that comprise a living organism?
Principles of Development reveals the universal principles which govern the process of development. Written by one of the most influential developmental biologists of our time, Lewis Wolpert, it focuses on those systems that best illuminate common principles, demystifying the complex yet intricate processes through which biological development occurs.
With co-authors whose expertise span the discipline, Principles of Development combines a careful exposition of the subject with insights from some of the world's pioneering developmental biology researchers, taking the student from the fundamentals through to latest discoveries in the field.
Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, and delivered in the lucid, engaging style for which Wolpert is renowned, Principles of Development is an invaluable resource for all students encountering this fascinating subject for the first time, and for the duration of their studies.
L'auteur - Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert est professeur de biologie appliquée au University College de Londres.
Autres livres de Lewis Wolpert
Sommaire
- History and basic concepts
- Development of the Drosophila body plan
- Patterning the vertebrate body plan I: axes and germ layers
- Patterning the vertebrate body plan II: the mesoderm and early nervous system
- Development of nematodes, sea urchins, ascidians, and slime molds
- Plant development
- Morphogenesis: change in form in the early embryo
- Cell differentiation
- Organogenesis
- Development of the nervous system
- Germ cells and sex
- Growth and post-embryonic development
- Regeneration
- Evolution and development
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Oxford University Press |
| Auteur(s) | Lewis Wolpert |
| Parution | 03/08/2006 |
| Édition | 3eme édition |
| Nb. de pages | 552 |
| Format | 20,5 x 27 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 1436g |
| Intérieur | Quadri |
| EAN13 | 9780199275366 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-19-927536-6 |
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