Chapter 1 Development and Reproduction: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Stages and Principles of Animal Development: Terms of Developmental Biology

Chapter 3 The Start: Fertilization, Activation of the Egg and a First Series of Cell Divisions (Cleavage)

Chapter 4 Model Organisms in Developmental Biology I: Invertebrates

Chapter 5 Development of Important Model Species II: Vertebrates

Chapter 6 The Human

Chapter 7 In Preparation for New Life I: Sex Determination and Sexual Development

Chapter 8 In Preparation for New Life II: Gametogenesis – The Development of Egg Cells and Sperm and Their Provision with Heritable Reserves

Chapter 9 Specification of Body Axes and Localized Fate Allotment by External and Maternal Cues

Chapter 10 Positional Information, Embryonic Induction and Pattern Formation by Cell-Cell-Communication

Chapter 11 Controlling Signals, Signal Propagation and Signal Transduction

Chapter 12 Development and Genes

Chapter 13 Application-Oriented Experiments with Early Vertebrate Embryos: Cloning, Transgenic Animals

Chapter 14 Morphogenesis: Shaping by Active Cell Movement, Differential Cell Adhesion and Cell Death

Chapter 15 Long Distance Wanderers and the Various Fates of the Neural Crest Cells

Chapter 16 The Nervous System and Central Sensory Organs

Chapter 17 Heart and Blood Vessels

Chapter 18 Stem Cells, Regeneration, Regenerative Medicine

Chapter 19 Growth Control and Cancer

Chapter 20 Metamorphosis and Its Hormonal Control

Chapter 21 Immortality or Ageing and Death: What Is Nature’s Aim?

Chapter 22 Evolution of Development