This classic text takes a balanced and modern approach, presenting the exciting developments in the field, and making the most complex topics understandable to a new generation of students.

Developmental Biology, Thirteenth Edition, accommodates the needs of both beginners and advanced students by clearly distinguishing the main subject matter from the details needed by advanced students.

An enhanced e-Book contains videos, interviews, tutorials, and interactive features. This market-leading text embodies the breadth, intellectual rigor, and wonder of contemporary developmental biology: Find the eBook on VitalSource.

Features

• Written primarily for undergraduate biology majors, this title can also serve to introduce graduate students and medical students to the field
• Synthesizes breakthroughs in this rapidly evolving discipline in a succinct, organized manner
• A student-centered approach empowers students to craft their own learning
• Best-in-class art program helps students visualize and tie together key concepts
• "Scientist Speak" interviews with world-renowned luminaries highlight the process of science and methods used in developmental research
• "Further Development" features make for easy distinction between foundational and advanced coverage in each chapter, offering teaching flexibility. Selected topics are supported by case studies.
• A primary literature appendix helps students with developmental research
• An extraordinary set of teaching and learning resources enhances the text
• Rich pedagogy empowers instructors to effectively deliver principles and cutting-edge developments while engaging students in learning with superb visuals and active learning

New to this Edition

• A new Chapter 8, "Conceptualizing Early Development," is a new fully integrated chapter that provides a coherent narrative on early development
• A new Chapter 14, "Early Human Development," engages students by focusing on advances in stem cell biology and biomedical visualization and their impacts on the current understanding of early human development
• A significant revision of Chapter 24: Regeneration
• "Dev Tutorial Videos" offer author-led video tutorials on central concepts of developmental biology, now with self-assessment
• "Scientists Speak" videos give students the opportunity to hear leading scientists in the field of developmental biology discuss their work
• "Watch Development" videos illustrate developmental biology phenomena and concepts
• Narrated Interactive Figures: Author Michael Barresi breaks down essential text figures, detailing cause and effect relationships and sequences, with self-assessment
• Assignable End-of-Chapter Quizzes
• "Further Development Online" features provide in-depth discussions related to concepts introduced in the text

1. The Making of Body and a Field: Introduction to Developmental Biology
2. Specifying Identity: Mechanisms of Developmental Patterning
3. Differential Gene Expression: Mechanisms of Cell Differentation
4. Cell-to-Cell Communication: Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation
5. Stem Cells: Their Potential and Their Niches
6. Sex Determination and Gametogenesis
7. Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism
8. Conceptualizing Early Development: Essential Processes
9. Snails, Flowers and Nematodes: Different Mechanisms for Similar Patterns of Specification
10. The Genetics of Axis Specification Drosophila
11. Sea Urchins and Tunicates
12. Amphibians and Fish
13. Birds and Mammals
14. Early Human Development
15. Neural Tube Formation and Patterning
16. Brain Growth
17. Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity
18. Ectodermal Placodes and the Epidermis
19. Paraxial Mesoderm: The Somites and Their Derivatives
20. Intermediate and Lateral Plate Mesoderm: Heart, Blood, and Kidneys
21. Development of the Tatrapod Limb
22. The Endoderm: Tubes and organs for Digestion and Respiration
23. Metamorphosis: The Hormonal Reactivation of Development
24. Regeneration 
25. The Environmental and Symbiotic Regulation of Development
26. Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change

Michael Barresi, UNITED STATES

Scott Gilbert, UNITED STATES

Michael J. F. Barresi is Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Smith College. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology and the Sherrerd prize for distinguished teaching from Smith College. Michael has pioneered the use of a variety of technologies to engage students and faculty in novel ways with the concepts of developmental biology as well as with researchers making discoveries in this field.

Scott F. Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology (Emeritus) at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Helsinki. He has received the Viktor Hamburger Prize in education from the Society of Developmental Biology as well as the Alexander Kowalevsky Award in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

Lecturer resources to accompany Developmental Biology 13e

• Dev Tutorials Quiz
• Narrated Figures Quiz
• Further Development Online
• Figure PPTs
• Figure JPGs
• Case Studies
• Case Study Handouts
• Chapter Quizzes

Click here to access the full list of lecturer resources

"This text is the gold standard, using the foundation of the Scott Gilbert text. Barresi works hard to keep the topics current, and provides many online, resources to supplement the text that the students very much appreciate and even enjoy." -- Crystal Ivie, Boise State University

"This is a textbook for an upper-division biology class of bright students who want to learn concepts and also be exposed to the experiments in the field. It is also bold in covering developmental biology from the molecular to the ecological, from the seconds to the evolutionary timescale, etc." -- Donna Nofziger, Pepperdine University

"This is a modern discussion of human development that includes many highly relevant examples that will be interest to undergraduates (or graduate students) with career aspirations in the health sciences." -- Paula Marie Checchi, Marist College