Developmental Biology

How does death help us understand the living? Death is more than the last event of life; it is interwoven into our growth, development, protectio...

Down syndrome is a textbook example of a chromosomal disorder and is common, occurring in 1 in 700 live births in the US. While there are many book...

This detailed volume explores a variety of techniques used to study lineage commitment in stem cells. Further elucidation of the process that stem ...

Understanding consciousness is the most important scientific principle left to be understood. That is particularly true with the ready availability...

This book focuses on plant systematics and evolution, with special interest on the history and philosophy of botanical classification. Tracing the ...

Insect Ecomorphology: Linking Functional Insect Morphology to Ecology and Evolution offers up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the morphology...

Animal Models of Disease, Part C, Volume 192 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenti...

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells. Much of this research has been fueled by their pote...

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells. Much of this research has been fueled by their pote...

The fourth volume in this series is a proceedings volume based on papers presented at the 5th Innovations in Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Resea...

Being sessiles like autotrophic plants and heterotrophics as animals, fungi are fascinating eukaryotes. In them, the need for external digestion ha...

Soil invertebrates make up diverse communities living in soil pores and on the soil surface, digging burrows and tunnels, processing organic matter...

This book explores the role of nanofertilizers in sustainable and efficient agricultural practices of the 21st century. It covers the various aspec...

Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for humans, particularly in rural areas and mountain regions ...

Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written...

This book begins with the creation of the elements used in life and how these elements, as atoms, bound together into organic compounds and polymer...

Sex shapes who we are as individuals and as a species. Where in the mists of time did something so importantand eye-catchingoriginate, and what doe...

Cell Signaling provides undergraduate and graduate students with the conceptual tools needed to make sense of the dizzying array of pathways that c...

Principles of Regenerative Medicine, Third Edition, details the technologies and advances applied in recent years to strategies for healing and gen...

A decade after publication of the first edition, Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles responds to extensive changes in the field of toxinology...

Gives an account of the morphologies of vertebrate respiratory organs and attempts to explicate the basis of the common and different structural an...

Nanotechnology offers a revolutionary and definitive approach for the efficient delivery of drug molecules to non-healthy tissues and cells. This f...

This book presents an evaluation of stem cells from human dental pulp as a reliable stem cell source for cell-based therapy to stimulate tissue reg...

The southwestern Australian flora is unique in the world, not only for its biodiversity and endemism, but also for its functional biodiversity. It ...

Cell Signaling provides undergraduate and graduate students with the conceptual tools needed to make sense of the dizzying array of pathways that c...

Bees are flying insects of the order Hymenoptera closely related to wasps and ants. The ancestors of bees are assumed to be predatory wasps, which ...

The Geometric Induction of Bone Formation describes new biomimetic biomaterials that offer mechanistic osteogenic surfaces for the autonomous and s...

Cell differentiation and the development of multicellular organisms are processes of self-assembly, controlled and driven by signaling molecules an...

Gap junction channels are a group of intercellular channels expressed in tissues and organs to synchronize many physiological processes. A gap junc...

Phenotypic plasticity the ability of an individual organism to alter its features in direct response to a change in its environment is ubiquitous...

Health and welfare issues of brachycephalic (flat-faced) animals are one of the most pressing problems facing companion animals right now. Dogs, in...

The evolution of segmentation is one of the central questions in evolutionary developmental biology. Indeed, it is one of the best case studies for...

This sixth of 15 short atlases reimagines the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development. This volume presents serial secti...

The Developing Brain and Its Connections describes the processes of neural development from neural induction through synaptic refinement. Each chap...

Suppose you were designing a marine mammal. What would they need to live in the ocean? How would you keep them warm? What design features would all...

Most textbooks and atlases of human anatomy chronicle only a few cases of muscle variations in the normal human population, or of muscle anomalies ...

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, t...

Zoo animals as a population are a diverse array of species from all around the globe. When managed in captivity, it is important that key aspects o...

The book discusses ideas concerning the order and balance of nature (or economy of nature) from the late 17th century to the early 20th century. Th...

Until recently, breeding efforts in mass produced food crops centered on high yield production while sacrificing flavor, taste and other quality tr...

The seventh of 15 short atlases reimagining the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development. This volume presents serial sec...

Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives is an award-winning and groundbreaking exploration of the fundamental elements of the taxonomy, systematics, ...

This fifth of 15 short atlases reimagines the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development. This volume presents serial secti...

Human Microanatomy is a comprehensive histology text that analyzes human structure and function from the subcellular to organ level of organization...

Human Microanatomy is a comprehensive histology text that analyzes human structure and function from the subcellular to organ level of organization...

This volume examines cells set aside during development for use later in ontogeny or in adult life. There is no single term for such cells. The cel...

This book presents recent scientific investigations in microbial ecology and systematics. Advanced microbial science investigations employ the late...