Introduction
This lecture is an introduction to Vertebrate Development or Embryology.
The key components covered are: course introduction, historic perspective,
cell division, mitosis, meiosis. The lecture slides and textbook alone contain
enough information as an introduction to the subject for this level of study.
If you are interested in further reading, I have also included below links
to more detailed textbooks with further information and images. Please note
this additional information is not necessarily examinable, but may be useful
if you have not previously studied biology.
Lecture Slides
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browser or download the PDF document for later viewing/printing. Download
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Lecture Slides
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browser or download the PDF document for later viewing/printing.
Handout 1- Course overview (6 pages, 200 Kb)
Introduction 1 slide/page (view only)
Introduction 4 slides/page (print)
Lecture 1- Cell Division 1 slide/ page (best
for viewing)
Lecture 1- Cell Division 4 slides/ page
(best for viewing)
Lecture 1- Cell Division 6 slides/ page
(best for viewing)
Online Resources
Laboratory 1 will introduce several online resources that will be used throughout
the session. Listed Below are links to some of these resources.
UNSW Embryology
Week 1 Notes These are not the notes
that refer to the first week of this course, but the first week of development
which will be covered over teh first few weeks of this course.
Cell Division
Gamete Formation
Embryo Images Online
These are scanning electron micrographs of early embryonic development. These
images are not relevant to the first few weeks of lectures.
Larsen Textbook Online
Quick Links
Online Books
Developmental Biology
Developmental Biology. 6th ed. Gilbert, Scott F. Sunderland
(MA): Sinauer Associates, Inc.; c2000.
Below are listed links that relate to this Lecture from the textbook "Developmental
Biology" which is available free online. You can either click the provided
links or do your own search using the search link.
Developmental
biology: The anatomical tradition
The
Questions of Developmental Biology
Anatomical
Approaches to Developmental Biology
Developmental
mechanisms of evolutionary change
Search
Developmental Biology
Molecular Biology of the Cell
3rd ed. Alberts, Bruce; Bray, Dennis; Lewis, Julian; Raff,
Martin; Roberts, Keith; Watson, James D. New York and London: Garland Publishing;
c1994.
Below are listed links that relate to this Lecture from the textbook "Molecular
Biology of the Cell" which is available free online. You can either click
the provided links or do your own search using the search link.
Search
Molecular Biology of the Cell
MBoC Search Results(click
text link below to see search results)
Cell
Division Cycle
The
Mechanics of Cell Division
Meiosis
Germ
Cells and Fertilization
MBoC Images
The
cell-division cycle
The
M phase of the cell cycle
Comparison
of meiosis and normal cell division
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
OMIM
Comments
Welcome to Vertebrate Development for 2004.
This first Lecture will cover how the course is organised and assessed.
Following this I will give a brief historic background to Embryology and a brief overview of cell division,
which will be revisited in detail in a Laboratory.
This year I am attempting to update your lecture notes and make these new notes
available online and on the new version CD (version 4.0). This requires a considerable amount of work to reformat,
so you may find that some links do not work following translation. Please get back to me if you find one of these "dead" links.
Please email Dr Mark Hill if you wish to make a comment about this current project.
