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PART I. PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF BECOMING: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1. Making New Bodies: Mechanisms of Developmental Organization Chapter 2. Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning Chapter 3. Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation Chapter 4. Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Morphogenesis Chapter 5. Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches PART II. GAMETOGENESIS AND FERTILIZATION: THE CIRCLE OF SEX Chapter 6. Sex Determination and Gametogenesis Chapter 7. Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism PART III. EARLY DEVELOPMENT: CLEAVAGE, GASTRULATION, AND AXIS FORMATION Chapter 8. Rapid Specification in Snails and Nematodes Chapter 9. The Genetics of Axis Specification in Drosophila Chapter 10. Sea Urchins and Tunicates: Deuterostome Invertebrates Chapter 11. Amphibians and Fish Chapter 12. Birds and Mammals PART IV. BUILDING WITH ECTODERM: THE VERTEBRATE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND EPIDERMIS Chapter 13. Neural Tube Formation and Patterning Chapter 14. Brain Growth Chapter 15. Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity Chapter 16. Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis PART V. BUILDING WITH MESODERM AND ENDODERM: ORGANOGENESIS Chapter 17. Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives Chapter 18. Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys Chapter 19. Development of the Tetrapod Limb Chapter 20. The Endoderm: Tubes and Organs for Digestion and Respiration PART VI. POSTEMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT Chapter 21. Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development Chapter 22. Regeneration PART VII. DEVELOPMENT IN WIDER CONTEXTS Chapter 23. Development in Health and Disease: Birth, Defects, Endocrine Disruptors, and Cancer Chapter 24. Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development Chapter 25. Development and Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change Glossary Author Index Subject Index