First Signals : The Evolution of Multicellular Development /
The enormous recent success of molecular developmental biology has yielded a vast amount of new information on the details of development. So much so that we risk losing sight of the underlying principles that apply to all development. To cut through this thicket, John Tyler Bonner ponders a moment...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- From embryology to developmental biology
- The origin of multicellularity
- Size and evolution
- The evolution of signaling
- The basic elements of multicellular development
- Development in the cellular slime molds
- Conclusion.