From Egg to Embryo: Determinative Events in Early Development

by J.M.W. Slack

Book Overview

This book is about the development of the animal embryo starting from the fertilised egg. The emphasis is on the problem of pattern formation: how cells in different regions of the embryo become programmed to form the various structures of the body in the correct relative positions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521242053
• ISBN13: 9780521242059
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.