Understanding development /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Minelli, Alessandro (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Understanding life series.
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505 0 |a Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Defining Development, if Possible -- Development of What? -- Debunking Adultocentrism -- Growth Trajectories -- Uncertain Boundaries -- Embryos, from Classic Embryology to Modern -- Developmental Biology -- Box 1.1 Animals and Plants: The Life Cycle -- Success and Problems: Studying Development in Model Species -- 2: Cells and Development -- The Cellular Basis of Development -- Modulating Cell Division -- Programmed Cell Death -- The Development of Single-Cell Organisms -- Acetabularia: Delayed Morphogenesis within One Cell -- A Lesson from Syncytia -- 3: Development as the History of the Individual -- Many to One -- The Biological Individual -- One or Many? -- Scaffolds -- Chimeras -- Lichens and Plant Galls -- 4: Revisiting the Embryo -- Developmental Inertia -- From the Zygote, but Not in the Embryo -- Order Emerging -- The Arrow of Individual Life -- Organogenesis? -- Critical Stages -- 5: Developmental Sequences: Sustainability versus Adaptation -- The Hydra and the Colonial Sea Squirt -- Mature versus Adult -- Generational Problems -- Starting Again -- Closing the Circle -- Non-Adaptive Development -- 6: Genes and Development -- Developmental Genes? -- A Genetic Programme? -- Gene Networks and Master Control Genes -- Gene Expression throughout Development -- Painting Modules Differently -- The Developing Individual as a Cloud -- 7: Emerging Form -- Deceptive Numbers and Inelegant Morphogenesis -- Body Axes, Appendages -- Following Guidelines -- Symmetry and Asymmetry -- Temporal Serial Patterns -- Fractals and Paramorphism -- 8: The Ecology of Development -- The Leaves of a Bonsai: Developmental Robustness -- Developing in Alternative Environments: Phenotypic Plasticity -- Developmental Timing -- Periodization of Development -- Stipulating Age -- The Mayfly and the Bristlecone Pine: Age and Senescence, if Any -- Concluding Remarks -- Summary of Common Misunderstandings -- Classification -- References and Further Reading -- Index. 
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