This classic text takes a balanced and modern approach, presenting the exciting developments in the field, and making the most complex topics understandable to a new generation of students.

Developmental Biology, Thirteenth Edition, accommodates the needs of both beginners and advanced students by clearly distinguishing the main subject matter from the details needed by advanced students.

Ch. 1 The Making of Body and a Field: Introduction to Developmental Biology Ch. 2 Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning Ch. 3 Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentation Ch. 4 Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation Ch. 5 Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches Ch. 6 Sex Determination and Gametogenesis Ch. 7 Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism Ch. 8 Conceptualizing Early Development: Essential Processes Ch. 9 Snails, Flowers and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patterns of Specification Ch. 10 The Genetics of Axis Specification Drosophila Ch. 11 Sea Urchins and Tunicates Ch. 12 Amphibians and Fish Ch. 13 Birds and Mammals Ch. 14 Early Human Development Ch. 15 Neural Tube Formation and Patterning Ch. 16 Brain Growth Ch. 17 Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity Ch. 18 Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis Ch. 19 Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives Ch. 20 Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys Ch. 21 Development of the Tatrapod Limb Ch. 22 The Endoderm: Tubes and organs for Digestion and Respiration Ch. 23 Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development Ch. 24 Regeneration Ch. 25 The Environmental and Symbiotic Regulation of Development Ch. 26 Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

Michael Barresi , UNITED STATES

Scott Gilbert , UNITED STATES

Michael J. F. Barresi is Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Smith College. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology and the Sherrerd prize for distinguished teaching from Smith College. Michael has pioneered the use of a variety of technologies to engage students and faculty in novel ways with the concepts of developmental biology as well as with researchers making discoveries in this field. Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology (emeritus) at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor (emeritus) at the University of Helsinki. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology as well as the Alexander Kowalevsky Award in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

"This text is the gold standard, using the foundation of the Scott Gilbert text. Barresi works hard to keep the topics current, and provides many online, resources to supplement the text that the students very much appreciate and even enjoy." - Crystal Ivie, Boise Statte University

"A textbook for an upper division biology class of bright students who want to learn concepts as well as be exposed to the experiments in the field. It also is bold in covering developmental biology from the molecular to the ecological, from the seconds to the evolutionary timescale, etc." - Donna Nofziger, Pepperdine University

"This is a modern discussion of human development that includes many highly relevant examples that will be interest to undergraduates (or graduate students) with career aspirations in the health sciences." - Paula Marie Checchi, Marist College