Product Description: In 2016 Current Topics in Developmental Biology (CTDB) will celebrate its 50th or “golden” anniversary.  To commemorate the founding of CTDB by Aron Moscona (1921-2009) and Alberto Monroy (1913-1986) in 1966, a two-volume set of CTDB (volumes 116 and 117), entitled Essays on Development, will be published by Academic Press/Elsevier in early 2016...read more

Product Description: This book provides a coherent, clear, and uniform presentation of structural, genetic, molecular, and biochemical information available for the zona pellucida domain protein family, which impact pathologies such as infertility, deafness, and cancer...read more

Product Description: This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers the area of gametogenesis, with contributions from an international board of authors. The chapters provide a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as germline stem cells, signaling modalities during oogenesis in mammals, and genomic imprinting as a parental effect established in mammalian germ cells...read more

This volume comprehensively covers new technologies and methodologies that have appeared for the study of mouse development.First of a 2 part update of volume 225, Guide to Techniques in Mouse Development, edited by P.M. Wassarman and M.L. DePamphilis and published in 1993Comprehensively covers: new techniques for the cryopreservation of gametes and embryosproduction of transgenic and null (knockout) animals (use of ES cells)generation of conditional/inducible mutant animalsuse of gene-trap mutagenesisanalysis of allele-specific expressionuse of new reporter constructshumanizing of transgenic animalstranscript profiling of mouse development, imaging of mouse developmentrederivation of animals and use of mouse genomics

Product Description: This volume covers all aspects of embryonic stem cell differentiation, including mouse embryonic stem cells, mouse embryonic germ cells, monkey and human embryonic stem cells, and gene discovery. * Early commitment steps and generation of chimeric mice* Differentiation to mesoderm derivatives* Gene discovery by manipulation of mouse embryonic stem cell...read more

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Product Description: This series provides annual reviews of research topics in developmental biology/biochemistry, written from the perspectives of leading investigators in these fields. This volume of Advances in Developmental Biochemistry consists of seven chapters that review specific aspects of development in several different organisms including mollusks, flies and mice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Volume 4 of Advances in Developmental Biology and Biochemistry consists of five chapters that review specific aspects of sea urchin, fly, and mammalian development. In Chapter 1, A. Bejsovec and M. Peifer discuss the nature and role of the wingless/Wnt-1 signaling pathway in Drosophila, as well as in amphibia and mammals...read more

Product Description: This volume provides, for the first time, an extensive compilation of those state-of-the-art methods that have revolutionized the use of mice as an experimental system. This volume is a unique source for detailed descriptions to be used in research by both experienced and novice researchers - Germ cells and embryos; Fertilization; Gene expression: messenger RNA, reporter genes, proteins, methylation; Gene identification; Nuclear transplantation; Transgenic animals: pronuclear injection, embryonic stem cells, and gene targeting; Lineage analysis...read more

Product Description: Part of a series which aims to examine current advances in the field of developmental biology, this volume discusses a variety of topics in the field.

Product Description: The inaugural volume of Advances in Developmental Biochemistry paints a rather broad stroke through the field. Gene expression during animal development is a major, but not exclusive topic of the volume, and several experimental systems, including mice, flies, worms, and amphibia, are considered...read more

Product Description: Volume I of this treatise begins at the beginning of the fertilization pathway with development of eggs and sperm (gametogenesis) and progresses to the point at which gametes are rendered capable of producing a viable zygote (Chapters 1 to 5)...read more

Product Description: Elements of Mammalian Fertilization, Volume 2 discusses in vitro fertilization (IVF) in humans and domestic animals and provides insight into potential applications of contemporary experimental approaches to contraceptive development...read more

Product Description: The critically acclaimed laboratory standard, Methods in Enzymology, is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike...read more