This Side Up: Spatial Determination in the Early Development of Animals

by Robert Wall

Book Overview

During animal development the descendants of a single cell form many different tissues and organs in appropriate positions within an embryo. To do this they must recognise their position, and this book examines our knowledge of how this is done. It starts by considering how much spatial pattern is already laid down when the egg forms inside the mother, and ends just before the formation of visible organs. Within these limits it considers evidence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521017262
• ISBN13: 9780521017268
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"