Principles of Development

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