Atlas of Chick Development

Ruth Bellairs,Mark Osmond

• Editore: Academic Press
• Anno: 2014
• ISBN:
  9780123849526
• Edizione: 3
• Argomento: Biological Sciences
• Categoria: Cell Biology

The Atlas of Chick Development, Third Edition, a classic work covering all major event of chick development, is extensively updated with new and more detailed photographs, enlargements showing regions of special-interest and complexity, and new illustrations. The revised text and expanded illustrative material describe the intricate changes that take place during development, together with accounts of recent experimental and molecular research that has transformed our understanding of morphogenesis.

These wide-ranging updates make this book an essential resource for developmental biologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, poultry scientists, biochemists, immunologists, and other life scientists who use the chick embryo as their research model. Individuals joining this burgeoning area, ignited by the increased insight into events surrounding organ and tissue differentiation, will find this a valuable tool to help grow a basic knowledge of morphogenesis.

• Remains the established standard—the only book providing a comprehensive description of chick development from fertilization to hatching
• Contains more than 750 photographs and illustrations, including 410 labelled histological sections and 85 new high-quality plates, showing the major anatomical events from the earliest stages to 13 days of incubation
• Includes more than 200 labelled and detailed scanning electron micrographs, showing various tissues in great detail
• Leads the reader to important reviews on aspects of this rapidly moving field, along with extensive and updated references

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface to First Edition
• Preface to Second Edition
• Preface to Third Edition
• Note on Plates
• Glossary
• Some Highlights in the History of Chick Embryology
• Chapter 1. The Hen’s Egg and its Formation
• Chapter 2. Techniques
• Chapter 3. Early Stages
• Chapter 4. Establishment of the Embryonic Body
• Chapter 5. External Appearance and Polarity
• Chapter 6. Heart, Blood Vessels and Lymphatics
• Chapter 7. Urino-Genital System
• Chapter 8. Gut, Coelom and Respiratory System
• Chapter 9. Nervous System
• Chapter 10. Skeleton and Muscles
• Chapter 11. The Integument
• Chapter 12. Endocrine Glands
• Chapter 13. Extra-Embryonic Membranes
• Photographic Plates
• Appendices. Normal Tables
• Appendix I. Normal Table of Eyal-Giladi and Kochav (1975)
• Appendix II. Normal Table of Hamburger and Hamilton (1951; 1992)
• Appendix III. Additional Normal Tables
• References
• Index