Main description:

The Atlas of Chick Development, Third Edition, a classic work covering all major event of chick development, is extensively updated with new and more detailed photographs, enlargements showing regions of special-interest and complexity, and new illustrations. The revised text and expanded illustrative material describe the intricate changes that take place during development, together with accounts of recent experimental and molecular research that has transformed our understanding of morphogenesis.

These wide-ranging updates make this book an essential resource for developmental biologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, poultry scientists, biochemists, immunologists, and other life scientists who use the chick embryo as their research model. Individuals joining this burgeoning area, ignited by the increased insight into events surrounding organ and tissue differentiation, will find this a valuable tool to help grow a basic knowledge of morphogenesis.

Contents:

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition
Some highlights in the history of chick embryology
Chapter 1: The hen's egg and its formation
Chapter 2: Techniques
Chapter 3: Early stages
Chapter 4: Establishment of the embryonic body
Chapter 5: External appearance and polarity
Chapter 6: Heart, blood vessels and lymphatics
Chapter 7: Urino-genital system
Chapter 8: Gut, coelom and respiratory system
Chapter 9: Nervous system
Chapter 10: Skeleton and muscles
Chapter 11: The Integument
Chapter 12: Endocrine glands
Chapter 13: Extra-embryonic membranes
Plate Section: Includes 231 full-page Plates to illustrate chick development stages
Appendices: Normal tables
References
Index