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KEY EXPERIMENTS IN PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

This unique resource presents twenty-seven easy-to-follow laboratory exercises

foruse in student practical classes, all of which are classic experiments in develop-

mental biology. These experiments have provided key insights into developmental

questions, and many of them are described by the leaders in the ﬁeld who carried

out the original pioneering research. This book intends to bridge the gap between

state-of-the-art experimental work and the laboratory classes taken at the under-

graduate and postgraduate levels. All chapters follow the same logical format, taking

the students from materials and methods, through results and discussion, so that

they learn the underlying rationale and analysis employed in the research. Chapters

also include teaching concepts, discussion of the degree of difﬁculty of each exper-

iment, potential sources of failure, as well as the time required for each experiment

to be carried out in a practical class with students. The book will be an invaluable

resource for graduate students and instructors teaching practical developmental

biology courses.

Manuel Marı-Beffa is a Lecturer in Developmental Biology at the University of

M alaga.

Jennifer Knight is an Instructor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and De-

velopmental Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Key Experiments in Practical Developmental Biology - Jennifer Knight.pdf