Table of Contents

1. Introduction to development; 2. Development of the Drosophila body plan; 3. Patterning the vertebrate body plan I : Life cycles and experimental techniques; 4. Patterning the vertebrate body plan II: Axes and germ layers; 5. Patterning the vertebrate body plan III: The early nervous system and the somites; 6. Development of nematodes, sea urchins and ascidians; 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

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