Mari-Beffa, M., and J. Knight.2005. Key Experiments in Practical Developmental Biology. Cambridge University Press, New York, 382 pp. ISBN 0-521-83315-9, price (hardbound), $110

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M. Mari-Beffa, J. Knight. 2005. Key Experiments in Practical Developmental Biology. Cambridge University Press, New York, 382 pp. ISBN 0-521-83315-9, price (hardbound), $110. The text professes to be “… twenty-seven easy-to-follow laboratory exercises … described by leaders in the field … .” Featured authors are widely published and recognizable to individuals working in developmental biology. Some of the laboratory exercises are easy to follow, yet many are advanced for the typical college or small university. The text is organized into 12 sections, most with multiple examples of key experiments. The selection of sections and exercises follows current literature in the field of developmental biology. Sections include Graftings, Specific Chemical Reagents, Bead Implantation, Nucleic Acid Injections, Genetic Analysis, Clonal Analysis, In Situ Hybridization, Transgenic Organisms, Vertebrate Cloning, Cell Culture, Evo-Devo Studies , and Computational Modeling . There are opportunities to see how the field has developed and …