DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY WEB SITES OF INTEREST Below is a sampling of Web sites that contain information and movies relevant to the material we will be covering in Part I of BIOLOGY 202. The movies allow you to see the dynamic processes of development so donšt pass these up! As is true of the best Web sites in general, several of the sites listed below will allow you to take a path of exploration and you will find many new areas of interest. Have FUN and let us know if you find other sites which you think might be of interest to your classmates.
Zygote
http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/index.html
An excellent site for Developmental Biology in general, maintained by Dr. Scott Gilbert at Swarthmore. Well worth cruising through to find out the latest exciting areas in Developmental Biology research (click on New Nodes). This also contains links to other sites of interest.
A site maintained by the Society of Developmental Biology; organized by subjects, with links to the home pages of labs actively involved in developmental biology research
A site maintained by Dr. Jeff Hardin at the University of Wisconsin. Well worth checking out! Working through this tutorial will give you a chance to preview, then later review information on early amphibian development wešve covered in this course. If you are finding the movies difficult to get to, try accessing this site through the URL listed below
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/zoo321/movies321.html
This is a Web page maintained by Dr. Klauss Kalthoff for his Developmental Biology class at the University of Texas. It contains many other additional links to the best developmental biology Web sites.
As above, but with sea urchin center stage.
A site that provides a pictorial account and information about human development, from conception to birth.
A site with modules organized around stages or major processes of development, maintained by Dr. Leon W. Browder at the University of Calgary. Chose a subject (e.g. gametogenesis, or generating cell diversity) and youšll find a list of topics to investigate and a list of places to go to dive into the subject in more depth.
Contains short time-lapse sequences of growing human, pig, chick and fish embryos which you can view using "Quick-Time".
Movies showing striking sequences of fly development, Calcium dynamics during fertilization in fish eggs and cell movements during sea urchin gastrulation.
A site maintained by Dr. Mark Cooper in the Department of Zoology at this University.
Check out images and time lapse movies on fish development obtained by Dr. Cooper and his students from their research gastrulation of the zebrafish.
Spectacular images of gastrulation and other stages of Drosophila development, including movies showing embryogenesis of the fly embryo.