Developmental biology

Over 98% of the human genome contains non-coding DNA sequences.

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Over the past 50 years, biotechnology has been the major driving force for increasing crop productivity.

Abiotic stresses such as high temperature, low-temperature, drought, and salinity limit crop productivity worldwide.

The book considers signaling events from the zygote embryo through to the blastocyst with relevant data from embryonic stem (ES) cells, including dialogue with the extracellular environment and with the maternal tract during the implantation process.

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This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in basic and translational research in the field of reconstructive transplantation and its potential therapeutic implications.

This text is a comprehensive look at the current knowledge on stem cell application for vision loss, showcasing different types of stem cells (adult, embryonic, iPSCs) for diseases of the front and the back of the eye.

Numerous functions, cognitive skills, and behaviors are associated with intelligence, yet decades of research has yielded little consensus on its definition.

The new edition of this authoritative text provides an interdisciplinary treatise of all aspects of the interactions between light and the living world.

This volume presents the issues and challenges of crop pathogens and plant protection.

Plastids are the sites of conversion of solar energy into the chemical energy usable to sustain life.

This comprehensive volume is one of the first books to offer the reader detailed insight into sources of perinatal stem cells, their biology, and their potential for disease treatment.

To celebrate the Center for Perinatal Biology's 40th Anniversary, an illustrious group gathered at Loma Linda University in February 2013.

This volume addresses recent developments in weed science.

This timely volume explores various techniques for tissue and organ regeneration using stem cells isolated from adult tissues.

This book provides the Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) community an update of the fast approaching novel technologies that may allow improved assessment of the reproductive potential of sperm, oocytes and embryos.

This comprehensive volume is the first to specifically target developing, adult and diseased neural stem cells.

This book exemplifies experience across the globe in banking of cord blood, mesenchymal, embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells for clinical use from the United States, Canada, the European Union, Switzerland and Japan to Iran, India and Serbia.

Terricolous lichens, a habitat specialist group of lichens play a vital role in maintenance and ecological stability of soil crusts with reference to their physical stability, hydrology and growth of soil microflora.

Tumor-Induced Immune Suppression - Prospects and Progress in Mechanisms and Therapeutic Reversal presents a comprehensive overview of large number of different mechanisms of immune dysfunction in cancer and therapeutic approaches to their correction.

This addition to the Springer Brief in Stem Cells series focuses on aspects related to the specific mechanisms that ensure and control pluripotency and cell commitment in domestic animal species.

This lavishly-illustrated, authoritative atlas explores the intricate art of culturing human pluripotent stem cells.

This text highlights the endogenous regenerative potential of the central nervous system in neonates and juveniles and discusses possible ways it might be manipulated for medical purposes.

In very general terms, "e;scaling"e; can be defined as the structural and func- tional consequences of differences in size (or scale) among organisms of more or less similar design.

The past decade has seen a steady increase in studies oflemur behavior and ecology.

The frozen-hydrated specimen is the principal element that unifies the subject of low- temperature microscopy, and frozen-hydrated specimens are what this book is all about.

This book is the product of a NATO Advanced Study Institute of the same name, held at the Anargyrios and Korgialenios School on the island of Spetsai, Greece, in September 1994.

In response to enormous recent advances, particularly in molecular biology, the authors have revised their warmly received work.

Recent progress in recombinant DNA technology and the availability of a number of nonpeptide subtype-specific receptor antagonists and of specific antibodies to components of prorenin-renin-angiotensin system (PRAS) have led to rapid advances in the under- standing of the multifaceted role of angiotensin II, classically known as a peptide hormone of cardiovascular homeostasis.

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The Cell Surface: Mediator of Developmental Processes contains the papers presented at the 38th Symposium of the Society for Developmental Biology, held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in June 1979.

The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Physiology, Volume IV contains an account of the chemistry and biosynthesis of the various classes of isoquinolines.

Diseases of the Urethra and Penis provides information pertinent to the diseases of the urethra and penis.

The Origin, Nature and Evolution of Protoplasmic Individuals and their Associations explores living beings of all levels of complexity in relation to each other and to the various ambient sources that they use to survive: protoplasmic individuals and their associations, cells and their associations, animals, and man.

Advances in the Biosciences 13: Hormones and Embryonic Development investigates various aspects of hormones and embryonic development, including their physiological and pharmacological effects.

Annual Fishes: Life History Strategy, Diversity, and Evolution is the first comprehensive reference on current knowledge of diverse species that exhibit unique survival strategies and provide important models for basic and applied research.

This book provides stimulating and timely suggestions about expanding the world food supply to include a variety of minilivestock.

This volume contains original contributions from an international group of authors with the highest reputations in their respective areas of phylogenetic and reproductive studies on salamanders and newts.

This book provides a brief description of the ecology and natural history of sixteen amphibians, eight snakes and lizards and the Chelonia species found in the temperate climatic region of Europe (North-west Europe).

Gives an account of the morphologies of vertebrate respiratory organs and attempts to explicate the basis of the common and different structural and functional designs and stratagems that have evolved for acquisition of molecular oxygen.

The extremely labile nature of the nervous system has proved an intriguing area of research for over thirty years.

This book covers the major aspects of phylogeny and reproductive biology of frogs in chapters written by major authorities.

This book discusses the major accomplishments made in elucidating vitellogenic events at the cellular, biochemical, and molecular biological levels.

This book deals with reproduction of Amphibians belonging to three extant orders: Caecilians, Salamanders, Frogs and Toads.

One of the little known species in the danger of extinction, gymophionan amphibians, are also known as caecilians or apoda.