Developmental Biology: [With CDROM]

by Scott F. Gilbert and Michael J. Barresi

Book Overview

A classic gets a new coauthor and a new approach: Developmental Biology, Eleventh Edition, keeps the excellent writing, accuracy, and enthusiasm of the Gilbert Developmental Biology book, streamlines... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878932585
• ISBN13: 9780878932580
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates
• Length: 838 Pages
• Weight: 4.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

good quality

good quality, brand new book with VCD fast delivery, also cost me much less than buying from some other book stores.

If Knowledge is Your Idea of Fun...

... you might be interested in this massive college textbook in developmental biology, chiefly addressing cell processes. It does presuppose a reasonable knowledge of general biology and chemistry, but given that starting point, it's quite lucid in its explanations, the visual aids are very clear and supportive of the text, and the whole volume progresses well from what you know toward what you need to know next. Most of the negative reviews here focus on what the book doesn't contain; I'm sure the reviewers had their points, in that they were probably using the book for immediate practical purposes. I've been pouring through it purely for fun. It's taken me about two years to absorb enough of it to be ready for the test. The good news is that, ha ha, I don't take tests any more! This is the 1997 Fifth Edition. I'm well aware that the current state of the field of molecular biology is already beyond the contents of this textbook, but as far as I can tell from my armchair, everything you might want to learn about current research will require the kind of fundamentals presented in this text. Read it, and then you'll be ready for phosphorescent color-coding of your own mouse neurons!

Comprehensive, interesting and well illustrated

With a clear prose and a CD with links to all source material, this book is a great source for any biologist interested in the development of organisms, and how it was all figured out.

Outstanding in-depth intro to developmental biology

I think Scott Gilbert has done an absolutely stupendous job in writing this clearly written, beautifully illustrated and up-to-date exposition of developmental biology. The concluding chapter on evolutionary developmental biology is brief but very well done. The websites associated with the book and the CD provide much additional information. Definitely the premier textbook in this area. Don't tackle it without having taken at least a course in cell biology, and some exposure to biochemistry and genetics would be helpful as well. The last time I read a dev bio textbook was when I was in college 30 years ago; how things have changed!

Good overview of developmental biology

Well written and illustrated reference on animal development. This book covers basic principles of developmental biology, and then considers transcriptional regulation, control of development by RNA processing and translational regulation. Cell specification and cellular interactions are then considered. The last chapter considers developmental mechanisms in evolution.