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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 October 2009
      27 July 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511574542
      9780521361156
      9780521017268
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511574542
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.9kg, 450 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.687kg, 452 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Cell Biology and Developmental Biology
      Series:
      Developmental and Cell Biology Series (24)
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    Subjects:
    Life Sciences, Cell Biology and Developmental Biology
    Series:
    Developmental and Cell Biology Series (24)
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    During animal development the descendants of a single cell form many different tissues and organs in appropriate positions within an embryo. To do this they must recognise their position, and this book examines our knowledge of how this is done. It starts by considering how much spatial pattern is already laid down when the egg forms inside the mother, and ends just before the formation of visible organs. Within these limits it considers evidence obtained by a variety of techniques, both experimental and biochemical, and from the embryos of many different animal groups. This breadth of coverage and the amount of detail afforded, particularly to the experimental studies, distinguish it from competing works and will make it a very valuable review. Moreover, in the final chapter the author analyses this evidence in ways which will be new to most readers, and which call into question current ideas about spatial determination.

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    "...an important addition to the developmental biologist's bookshelves." Science

    "...an invaluable source of reference. In particular, the author has helped rescue from oblivion many classical experimental results that have progressively disappeared from textbooks simply because they either could not be approached by contemporary molecular techniques, or simply because they could not be explained by existing theoretical models." Pere Alberch, Quarterly Review of Biology

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