An Outline of Animal Development by Richard Davenport

An Outline of Animal Development by Richard Davenport

Format: Hardcover, 412 pages

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1979

ISBN:  0201018144

Condition: Good. No dust jacket, a few bumps on the covers; tight, text clean.

Contents

Animal development: a first outline at the level of the organism -- A description of ontogeny in terms of apparent properties on different structural levels -- A description of ontogeny in terms of potential properties -- The synthesis of protein -- The control of protein synthesis -- The regulation of protein synthesis during ontogeny: a molecular description -- The cell cycle -- The phylogeny of muticellular form -- The role of cellular association in the attainment of muticellular form -- Primary determination -- Secondary determination -- Individuation: the epigenetic achievement form -- Mosaic development -- The sea urchin embryo -- The dynamics of the amphibian embryo -- The early development of the mammalian embryo -- The use of models in the description of ontogeny -- The origin of current biological concepts -- The description of hierarchical organization -- The role of constraints in the emergence of structural organization -- The role of constraint in ontogeny.