Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface to the first editionPreface to the second editionPreface to the third editionSome highlights in the history of chick embryologyChapter 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 membranesPlate Section: Includes 231 full-page Plates to illustrate chick development stagesAppendices: Normal tables References Index
