Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices. CONTENIDO: Getting started. Overview of development. Gametogenesis, fertilization, and lineage tracing -- Early development of animals. Oogenesis and early development of drosophila -- Amphibian development -- Amniote development -- Vertebrate organogenesis. Development of ectodermal derivatives in vertebrates -- Development of mesodermal and endodermal derivatives in vertebrates -- Metamorphosis -- Development of plants. Plant meristems -- Reproduction in plants -- Cell specification and signaling in plants -- Morphogenesis. Cellular associations, environments, and behaviors -- Tissue interactions and morphogenesis -- Regulation of gene expression. The levels of regulation of gene expression in development -- Developmental regulatory networks I: drosophila and other invertebrates -- Developmental regulatory networks II: vertebrates -- Evolution and development.