Understanding development

by Minelli, Alessandro

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Full title :Understanding development / Alessandro Minelli.

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Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Port Melbourne, Australia
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:110886550X, 9781108872287, 110887228X, 9781108865500
oclc:on1250226873
LC Classification:QH491
Dewey Decimal:571.8

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 -- …