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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.
Subjects:
Developmental biology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.