Understanding Development /
Minelli, Alessandro.
Understanding Development / Alessandro Minelli. - 1 online resource (206 pages) - Understanding Life Ser. . - Understanding Life Ser. .
ALA COVID Relief Fund
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Defining Development, if Possible -- 2. Cells and Development -- 3. Development as the History of the Individual -- 4. Revisiting the Embryo -- 5. Developmental Sequences: Sustainability versus Adaptation -- 6. Genes and Development -- 7. Emerging Form -- 8. The Ecology of Development -- Concluding Remarks -- Summary of Common Misunderstandings -- Classification -- References and Further Reading -- Index.
Developmental biology is seemingly well understood, with development widely accepted as being a series of programmed changes through which an egg turns into an adult organism, or a seed matures into a plant. However, the picture is much more complex than that: is it all genetically controlled or does environment have an influence? Is the final adult stage the target of development and everything else just a build-up to that point? Are developmental strategies the same in plants as in animals? How do we consider development in single-celled organisms? In this concise, engaging volume, Alessandro Minelli, a leading developmental biologist, addresses these key questions. Using familiar examples and easy-to-follow arguments, he offers fresh alternatives to a number of preconceptions and stereotypes, awakening the reader to the disparity of developmental phenomena across all main branches of the tree of life.
9781108865500
Developmental Biology
Evolutionary developmental biology
Electronic books.
QH491 / .M564 2021
571.8
Understanding Development / Alessandro Minelli. - 1 online resource (206 pages) - Understanding Life Ser. . - Understanding Life Ser. .
ALA COVID Relief Fund
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Defining Development, if Possible -- 2. Cells and Development -- 3. Development as the History of the Individual -- 4. Revisiting the Embryo -- 5. Developmental Sequences: Sustainability versus Adaptation -- 6. Genes and Development -- 7. Emerging Form -- 8. The Ecology of Development -- Concluding Remarks -- Summary of Common Misunderstandings -- Classification -- References and Further Reading -- Index.
Developmental biology is seemingly well understood, with development widely accepted as being a series of programmed changes through which an egg turns into an adult organism, or a seed matures into a plant. However, the picture is much more complex than that: is it all genetically controlled or does environment have an influence? Is the final adult stage the target of development and everything else just a build-up to that point? Are developmental strategies the same in plants as in animals? How do we consider development in single-celled organisms? In this concise, engaging volume, Alessandro Minelli, a leading developmental biologist, addresses these key questions. Using familiar examples and easy-to-follow arguments, he offers fresh alternatives to a number of preconceptions and stereotypes, awakening the reader to the disparity of developmental phenomena across all main branches of the tree of life.
9781108865500
Developmental Biology
Evolutionary developmental biology
Electronic books.
QH491 / .M564 2021
571.8