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1. Developmental Anatomy
2. Developmental Genetics
3. Cell-Cell Communication in Development
4. Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism
5. Early Development in Selected Invertebrates
6. The Genetics of Axis Specification in
Drosophila
7. Amphibians and Fish: Early Development and Axis Formation
8. Birds and Mammals: Early Development and Axis Formation
9. The Emergence of the Ectoderm: Central Nervous System and Epidermis
10. Neural Crest Cells and Axonal Specificity
11. Paraxial and Intermediate Mesoderm
12. Lateral Plate Mesoderm and the Endoderm
13. Development of the Tetrapod Limb
14. Sex Determination
15. Postembryonic Development: Metamorphosis, Regeneration, and Aging
16. The Saga of the Germ Line
17. Medical Aspects of Developmental Biology
18. Developmental Plasticity and Symbiosis
19. Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change
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