Table of Contents

1. History and basic concepts ; 2. Development of the Drosophila body plan ; 3. Vertebrate development I: Life cycles and experimental techniques ; 4. Vertebrate development II: axes and germ layers ; 5. Vertebrate development III: patterning the early nervous system and the somites ; 7. Plant development ; 8. Morphogenesis: Change in form in the early embryo ; 9. Germ cells, fertilization and sex ; 10. Cell differentiation and stem cells ; 11. Organogenesis ; 12. Development of the nervous system ; 13. Growth and post-embryonic development ; 14. Regeneration ; 15. Evolution and development

Reviews

An outstanding text with a welldigested and comprehensive presentation of current views in developmental biology. It is a text I can enthusiastically recommend for adoption in developmental biology courses. Richard Harland, University of California-Berkeley in Development, December 2011