Barry, John Michael.

Molecular embryology : how molecules give birth to animals / J. Michael Barry. - New York : Taylor & Francis, c2002. - vii, 163 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Growth of an embryo is founded on repeated cell division -- How an embryo acquires the correct shape as its cells divide -- How differences in molecular composition between embryonic cells originate -- Signal molecules induce changes in cell composition throughout vertebrate development -- Differences in embryonic cell composition result from activation of different genes -- Experiments of drosophila reveal that specific transcription factors are keys that unlock embryonic genes -- Frontiers of research in molecular embryology.

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Embryology.
Molecular biology.

QL955 / .B1865 2002

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