By Frank J. Dye(auth.)
A newly revised variation of the traditional reference for the sphere today?updated with new phrases, significant discoveries, major scientists, and illustrations
Developmental biology is the examine of the mechanisms of improvement, differentiation, and progress in animals and vegetation on the molecular, mobile, and genetic degrees. The self-discipline has received prominence partly because of new interdisciplinary techniques and advances in know-how, that have ended in the swift emergence of latest recommendations and phrases. The Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology, moment variation is the 1st accomplished reference taken with the field's phrases, study, background, and people.
This authoritative A-to-Z source covers classical morphological and cytological phrases besides these from glossy genetics and molecular biology. largely cross-referenced, the Dictionary contains definitions of phrases, causes of thoughts, and biographies of historic figures. Comparative points are defined that allows you to offer a feeling of the evolution of constructions, and subject matters variety from primary terminology, germ layers, and induction to RNAi, evo-devo, stem mobilephone differentiation, and extra. Readers will locate such positive aspects of embryology and developmental biology as:
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Vertebrates
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Invertebrates
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Plants
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Developmental genetics
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Evolutionary developmental biology
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Molecular developmental biology
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Medical embryology
The author's top class on accessibility permits readers in any respect degrees to augment their vocabulary of their box and comprehend terminology past their particular concentration. Researchers and scholars in developmental biology, mobile biology, developmental genetics, and embryology will locate the dictionary to be an important resource.
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Bauchstück term used by Hans Spemann, meaning the belly piece; refers to an unorganized mass of tissue, obtained from an isolated blastomere, of the two-cell frog embryo, that does not contain any of the gray crescent; an unorganized mass of ventral cells. Bauplan (Baupläne) body plan. B-catenin is the major candidate for the factor that forms the Nieuwkoop center in the dorsalmost vegetal cells of the amphibian blastula; it is a transcription factor that can associate with other transcription factors to give them new properties; the B-catenin/Tcf3 (a ubiquitous transcription factor) complex appears to bind to the promoters of several genes whose activity is critical for axis formation; a protein that can act as an anchor for Bcl-2 genes 20 bilaminar embryonic disc cadherins or as a transcription factor (induced by the Wnt pathway); it is important in the specification of the germ layers throughout the animal phyla.
Alignment of the fetus in the uterus. Diagram shows examples of attitude (fetal position), lie (longitudinal), presentation (cephalic), and position (face right). Reprinted from Frank J. Dye, Human Life Before Birth, Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000, fig. 11-1, p. 91. atretic follicles during a given ovarian cycle, most of the follicles that begin to develop suddenly cease to grow and begin to degenerate; these degenerating follicles are called atretic follicles. atrial septal defect also referred to as ASD, a common congenital defect characterized by an abnormal opening in the septum between the right and left atria.
Antennapedia complex of Drosophila, comprises five homeobox genes, which control the development of the parasegments anterior to parasegment 5 in a manner similar to the bithorax complex. The Antennapedia complex controls parasegment identity in the head and first thoracic segment. The order of genes in the complex is the same as the spatial and temporal order in which they are expressed along the anteroposterior axis during development. See: bithorax complex. Antennapedia gene a gene responsible for the specification of fly body parts; mutations in it lead to bizarre phenotypes; specifies the identity of the second thoracic segment in Drosophila.