Barresi, Gilbert, Developmental Biology, International Twelfth Edition Student Resources

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Student Resources for Developmental Biology 12xe, by Michael J. F. Barresi and Scott F. Gilbert, including:

* Further Development

* Dev Tutorials

* Scientists Speak

* Watch Development

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The Making of a Body and a Field: A Framework for Understanding Animal Development

Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning

Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation

Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis

Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches

Sex Determination and Gametogenesis

Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism

Snails, Flowers, and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patterns of Specification

The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila

Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates

Amphibians and Fish

Birds and Mammals

Neural Tube Formation and Patterning

Brain Growth

Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity

Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis

Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives

Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys

Development of the Tetrapod Limb

The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration

Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development

Regeneration: The Development of Rebuilding

Development in Health and Disease: Birth Defects, Endocrine Disruptors, and Cancer

Development and Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

The Making of a Body and a Field: A Framework for Understanding Animal Development

Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning

Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation

Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis

Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches

Sex Determination and Gametogenesis

Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism

Amphibians and Fish

Birds and Mammals

Neural Tube Formation and Patterning

Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity

Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives

Development of the Tetrapod Limb

Development and Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

The Making of a Body and a Field: A Framework for Understanding Animal Development

Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning

Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches

Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism

Snails, Flowers, and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patterns of Specification

The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila

Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates

Amphibians and Fish

Birds and Mammals

Brain Growth

Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity

Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives

Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys

Development of the Tetrapod Limb

The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration

Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development

Regeneration: The Development of Rebuilding

The Making of a Body and a Field: A Framework for Understanding Animal Development

Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation

Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis

Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches

Sex Determination and Gametogenesis

Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism

Snails, Flowers, and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patterns of Specification

The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila

Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates

Amphibians and Fish

Birds and Mammals

Neural Tube Formation and Patterning

Barresi, Gilbert, Developmental Biology, International Twelfth Edition Student Resources

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Further Development 1.1: When Does a Human Become a Person?

Further Development 1.2: The Cell Biology of Embryonic Cleavage

Further Development 1.3: Epigenesis and Preformationism

Further Development 1.4: Conklin’s Art and Science

Further Development 1.5: Important Transitions in Animal Evolution

Further Development 1.6: The Developmental Evolution of Life

Further Development 1.7: Transitions of the Wall, the Foot, and the Tube

Further Development 2.1: The Germ Plasm Theory

Further Development 2.2: Squeezing the Conditions of Specification

Further Development 2.3: Transcription Factor Gradients Specify Fates from Head to Tail

Further Development 2.4: A Map of Cell Maturation

Further Development 2.5: A Rainbow of Cell Identities

Further Development 3.1: Genomic Equivalence and Cloning

Further Development 3.2: The Mediator Complex: Linking Enhancer and Promoter

Further Development 3.3: Combinatorial Association

Further Development 3.4: Polycomb and Trithorax Proteins Regulate the Leaf-to-Flower Transition in Plants

Further Development 3.5: Mechanisms of how DNA Methylation Blocks Transcription

Further Development 3.6: The Mechanisms of DNA Methylation

Further Development 3.7: Mechanisms of DNA Methylation During Genomic Imprinting

Further Development 3.8: Poised Chromatin

Further Development 3.9: Chromatin Diminution

Further Development 3.10: The Nuclear Envelope’s Role in Gene Regulation

Further Development 3.11: Transcription Factor Domains

Further Development 3.12: Insulators: Protecting Genomic Areas from Transcription Factor Binding

Further Development 3.13: Transcription Factors with the Power to Cure Diabetes

Further Development 3.14: The DSCAM Gene and its 38,016 Isoforms

Further Development 3.15: Control of Early Development by Pre-mRNA Selection

Further Development 3.16: So You Think You Know What a Gene Is?

Further Development 3.17: Splicing Enhancers and Recognition Factors

Further Development 3.18: Translational Regulation in Frogs and Flies

Further Development 3.19: Learn How a Mutation in a 3′ UTR Results in Bulging Biceps in Beef

Further Development 3.20: Stored Messenger RNA in Brain Cells

Further Development 3.21: Techniques of RNA and DNA Analysis

Further Development 3.21.1: Techniques of Molecular Biology

Further Development 3.21.2: Transgenic Cells and Gene Knockouts

Further Development 3.21.3: Studying DNA Regulatory Elements

Further Development 3.21.4: Determining Methylation Status: Bisulfite Mapping

Further Development 3.21.5: Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR)

Further Development 3.21.6: Microarrays and Macroarrays

Further Development 3.21.7: In Situ Hybridizations

Further Development 4.1: Sorting Out the Early Embryo

Further Development 4.2: Type, Timing, and Border Formation

Further Development 4.3: Shape Change and Epithelia Morphogenesis: “The Force Is Strong in You”

Further Development 4.4: Integrins and Cell Death

Further Development 4.5: Reciprocal Induction

Further Development 4.6: From Feathers to Claws and Frogs to Newts: Further Your Understanding of Induction

Further Development 4.7: The Insect Trachea: Combining Inductive Signals with Cadherin Regulation

Further Development 4.8: Downstream Events of the FGF Signal Transduction Cascade

Further Development 4.9: The JAK and STAT of Bone Development

Further Development 4.10: FGF Receptor Mutations

Further Development 4.11: A Multitude of Ways to Shape FGF Secretion

Further Development 4.12: Endosome Internalization:Morphogen Gradients Can Be Created by Literally Passing from One Cell to Another

Further Development 4.13: Notch Mutations

Further Development 4.14: Hippo Signaling: An Integrator of Pathways

Further Development 5.1: A Chapter on Senescence and Longevity

Further Development 5.2: Specifying the Shoot and Root Meristems

Further Development 5.3: How Does E-Cadherin Influence Blastocyst Cell Fates?

Further Development 5.4: Drosophila Testes Stem Cell Niche

Further Development 5.5: The Subgranular Zone Niche

Further Development 5.6: Just Another Notch on the Clock During Neurogenesis in the V-SVZ

Further Development 5.7: Regulatory Mechanisms in the Crypt

Further Development 5.8: Were HSCs Somehow Born from Bone to then Reside in the Marrow?

Further Development 5.9: Fat and Muscle, and the Role of MSCs in Aging

Further Development 5.10: Other Stem Cells Supporting Adult Tissue Maintenance and Regeneration

Further Development 5.11: A Discussion of the Challenges Using ESCs

Further Development 6.1: Sex Determination and Social Perceptions

Further Development 6.2: The Ovary Pathway: The Importance of β-catenin

Further Development 6.3: Finding the Elusive Testis-determining Factor

Further Development 6.4: Fibroblast Growth Factor 9

Further Development 6.5: Genes Controlled by Sry and Sox9

Further Development 6.6: The Origins of Genitalia

Further Development 6.7: Steroids and Secondary Sex Determination

Further Development 6.8: Descent of the Testes

Further Development 6.9: Dosage Compensation

Further Development 6.10: Brain Sex and Gender

Further Development 6.11: Brain Sex in Drosophila

Further Development 6.12: Theodor Boveri and the Formation of the Germ Line