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Developmental Biology
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 it, adds innovative electronic supplements, and creates a new textbook for those teaching Developmental Biology to a new generation.
Several new modes of teaching are employed in the new Gilbert and Barresi textbook. The videos explaining development--as well as those from Mary Tyler's Vade Mecum--are referenced throughout the book, and several other valuable new elements have been added.
Additional updates include:
* An increased emphasis on stem cells, which are covered extensively and early in the book.
* Sex determination and gametogenesis, instead of being near the end of the volume, are up front, prior to fertilization.
* Greatly expanded coverage of neural development, comprising a unit unto itself.
* Coverage of new experiments on morphogenesis and differentiation, as well as new techniques such as CRISPR.
For Students
Companion Website
Significantly enhanced for the eleventh edition, and referenced throughout the textbook, the Developmental Biology Companion Website provides students with a range of engaging resources, in the following categories:
* NEW Dev Tutorials: Professionally produced video tutorials, presented by the textbook's authors, reinforces key concepts.
* NEW Watch Development: Putting concepts into action, these informative videos show real-life developmental biology processes.
* Web Topics: These extensive topics provide more information for advanced students, historical, philosophical, and ethical perspectives on issues in developmental biology, and links to additional online resources.
* NEW Scientists Speak: In these question-and-answer interviews, developmental biology topics are explored by leading experts in the field.
* Plus the full bibliography of literature cited in the textbook (most linked to their PubMed citations).
DevBio Laboratory: Vade Mecum3
Included with each new copy of the textbook, Vade Mecum3 is an interactive website that helps students understand the organisms discussed in the course, and prepare them for the lab. The site includes videos of developmental processes and laboratory techniques, and has chapters on the following organisms: slime mold (Dictyostelium discoideum), planarian, sea urchin, fruit fly (Drosophila), chick, and amphibian.
For Instructors
Instructor's Resource Library (available to qualified adopters)
The Developmental Biology, Eleventh Edition, Instructor's Resource Library includes the following resources:
* NEW Developing Questions: Answers, references, and recommendations for further reading are provided so that you and your students can explore the Developing Questions that are posed throughout each chapter.
* Textbook Figures & Tables: All of the textbook's figures, photos, and tables are provided both in JPEG (high- and low-resolution) and PowerPoint formats. All images have been optimized for excellent legibility when projected in the classroom.
* Video Collection: Includes video segments depicting a wide range of developmental processes, plus segments from DevBio Laboratory: Vade Mecum3, and Differential Experessions2.
* Vade Mecum3 PowerPoints: Chick serial sections and whole mounts, provided in both labeled and unlabeled versions, for use in creating quizzes, exams, or in-class exercises.
* NEW Case Studies in Dev Bio: This new collection of case study problems accompanies the Dev Tutorials and provides instructors with ready-to-use in-class active learning exercises. The case studies foster deep learning in developmental biology by providing students an opportunity to apply course content to the critical analysis of data, to generate hypotheses, and to solve novel problems in the field. Each case study includes a PowerPoint presentation and a student handout with accompanying questions.
* Developmental Biology: A Guide for Experimental Study, Third Edition, by Mary S. Tyler: The complete lab manual, in PDF format.
Several new modes of teaching are employed in the new Gilbert and Barresi textbook. The videos explaining development--as well as those from Mary Tyler's Vade Mecum--are referenced throughout the book, and several other valuable new elements have been added.
Additional updates include:
* An increased emphasis on stem cells, which are covered extensively and early in the book.
* Sex determination and gametogenesis, instead of being near the end of the volume, are up front, prior to fertilization.
* Greatly expanded coverage of neural development, comprising a unit unto itself.
* Coverage of new experiments on morphogenesis and differentiation, as well as new techniques such as CRISPR.
For Students
Companion Website
Significantly enhanced for the eleventh edition, and referenced throughout the textbook, the Developmental Biology Companion Website provides students with a range of engaging resources, in the following categories:
* NEW Dev Tutorials: Professionally produced video tutorials, presented by the textbook's authors, reinforces key concepts.
* NEW Watch Development: Putting concepts into action, these informative videos show real-life developmental biology processes.
* Web Topics: These extensive topics provide more information for advanced students, historical, philosophical, and ethical perspectives on issues in developmental biology, and links to additional online resources.
* NEW Scientists Speak: In these question-and-answer interviews, developmental biology topics are explored by leading experts in the field.
* Plus the full bibliography of literature cited in the textbook (most linked to their PubMed citations).
DevBio Laboratory: Vade Mecum3
Included with each new copy of the textbook, Vade Mecum3 is an interactive website that helps students understand the organisms discussed in the course, and prepare them for the lab. The site includes videos of developmental processes and laboratory techniques, and has chapters on the following organisms: slime mold (Dictyostelium discoideum), planarian, sea urchin, fruit fly (Drosophila), chick, and amphibian.
For Instructors
Instructor's Resource Library (available to qualified adopters)
The Developmental Biology, Eleventh Edition, Instructor's Resource Library includes the following resources:
* NEW Developing Questions: Answers, references, and recommendations for further reading are provided so that you and your students can explore the Developing Questions that are posed throughout each chapter.
* Textbook Figures & Tables: All of the textbook's figures, photos, and tables are provided both in JPEG (high- and low-resolution) and PowerPoint formats. All images have been optimized for excellent legibility when projected in the classroom.
* Video Collection: Includes video segments depicting a wide range of developmental processes, plus segments from DevBio Laboratory: Vade Mecum3, and Differential Experessions2.
* Vade Mecum3 PowerPoints: Chick serial sections and whole mounts, provided in both labeled and unlabeled versions, for use in creating quizzes, exams, or in-class exercises.
* NEW Case Studies in Dev Bio: This new collection of case study problems accompanies the Dev Tutorials and provides instructors with ready-to-use in-class active learning exercises. The case studies foster deep learning in developmental biology by providing students an opportunity to apply course content to the critical analysis of data, to generate hypotheses, and to solve novel problems in the field. Each case study includes a PowerPoint presentation and a student handout with accompanying questions.
* Developmental Biology: A Guide for Experimental Study, Third Edition, by Mary S. Tyler: The complete lab manual, in PDF format.
810 pages, Hardcover
First published November 13, 1988
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Scott F. Gilbert
30 books17 followersScott Frederick Gilbert is an American evolutionary developmental biologist and historian of biology. Scott Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki.
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July 20, 2011
I love this book! i used to walk around all campus carrying it, not minding how heavy it is. all the chapters are incredibly interesting, I wouldn't close the book until I finish the chapter and absorb and understand how a certain aspect of embryo development happens. each chapter is full of awesome experiments that make you conclude the facts instead of reading them straight away which would have been boring.
This definately is my favorite biology book. it deserves a 5 star rating!and you don't have to be a science student/person to enjoy it :)
This definately is my favorite biology book. it deserves a 5 star rating!and you don't have to be a science student/person to enjoy it :)
January 3, 2015
This is an excellent book for those who are studying developmental biology, are developmental biologists or are simply deeply interested in this subject.
May 19, 2019
I have read some chapters of this book as a resource of my developmental biology course. In some parts, it was as if a long literature review. This, beside having a thorough overview of all aspects of developmental biology, it has sometimes blurred the major conclusions that can be drawn out.
(One confusion that we, in class, went through was that of molecular mechanisms of left-right axis in vertebrates). Which could be justified by the overall complexity of such a field and the vast ambiguity of its underlaying molecular mechanisms that are still unknown.
(One confusion that we, in class, went through was that of molecular mechanisms of left-right axis in vertebrates). Which could be justified by the overall complexity of such a field and the vast ambiguity of its underlaying molecular mechanisms that are still unknown.
October 20, 2011
This Book is great for critical studies on Developmental biology. This book covers all areas of it. Good stuff.
December 5, 2017
This remains my favorite book--and class--out of my five years as an undergraduate.
May 26, 2021
Top notch, the molecular complexity underlying embryological development blew my mind at the time I read this book. Made me daydream about migrating neural crest cells and their diverging paths... 5/5
February 1, 2019
Nice book
August 22, 2019
Nice book
April 13, 2023
I want to read a book but how we can see.
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May 13, 2015
This book was terrible! I thought it had way too much information in so many parts that made it difficult to get through and in some parts it seemed as if there was not enough information. Overall, the set-up was confusing-- especially taking it model system by model system and I was unimpressed.
February 5, 2009
Good refernce text for students and for developmental biologists.
May 13, 2009
needs a glossary!
September 30, 2015
Such a good book! Insightful and interesting.
December 4, 2015
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