Animal development: References & Edit History

General textbooks covering animal development include J. Brachet and H. Alexandre, Introduction to Molecular Embryology, 2nd totally rev. and enlarged ed. (1986); and Gerald M. Edelman, Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryology (1988). Hans Spemann, Embryonic Development and Induction (1938, reprinted 1988; originally published in German, 1936), is a classic exposition of the experimental method in embryology. Additional useful works are Robert Wall, This Side Up: Spatial Determination in the Early Development of Animals (1990); D.R. Johnson, The Genetics of the Skeleton: Animal Models of Skeletal Development (1986); John Phillip Trinkaus, Cells into Organs: The Forces That Shape the Embryo, 2nd ed. (1984); Elizabeth S. Watts (ed.), Nonhuman Primate Models for Human Growth and Development (1985), which compares both physical and behavioral growth among the primates, including humans; Matthew H. Kaufman, The Atlas of Mouse Development (1992); Claudio D. Stern and Phil W. Ingham (eds.), Gastrulation (1992); Brian K. Hall, The Neural Crest (1988); Brigid Hogan et al., Manipulating the Mouse Embryo: A Laboratory Manual, 2nd ed. (1994); and the work by Wilkins, cited above in the section on animal malformations.