Development at a Glance Poster Collection
The Company of Biologists
Peer-reviewed poster primers from the journal Development, each pairing a large annotated schematic with roughly 2,500 words on one topic — Notch signalling, Hox genes, morphogenesis, germ granules. Good for consolidating a mechanism into one diagram. Fills the gap between textbook chapter and research paper: short peer-reviewed overviews written for specialists and non-specialists.
More resources on Developmental Biology
SDB CoRe: Collaborative Resources for Developmental Biology
The Society for Developmental Biology's open reference of short, peer-vetted concept explanations built around images and videos, spanning early development, organogenesis, and germline biology. Useful for building accurate mental pictures before tackling a full textbook.
The Interactive Fly
A gene-by-gene guide to Drosophila development hosted by the Society for Developmental Biology, cross-linking biochemical pathways, mutant phenotypes, and developmental stages. Use it to follow any segmentation or signalling gene through the regulatory network it belongs to.
Patterning Development in the Early Embryo: The Role of Bicoid
Nobel laureate Eric Wieschaus gives three free talks on how the maternal Bicoid gradient patterns the fly embryo, covering live-imaging measurements of gradient stability and how the mechanism shifts across dipteran species. The researcher who found the genes explaining the mechanism, at research depth: positional information, fluorescent-tagged gradient measurement, comparative patterning.
Principles of Development (6th Edition)
Organises development around a small set of principles — positional information, induction, pattern formation — rather than organism-by-organism description. Shorter and more conceptual than Gilbert, it suits readers who want the logic before the encyclopaedic detail.
Developmental Biology (13th Edition)
The standard graduate-level reference for the field, covering cell fate specification, morphogen signalling, and organogenesis across model organisms. Readers finish able to trace a body plan from fertilisation through gene regulatory networks and classic embryological experiments.