title: The role of textbooks in communicating developmental biology.
abstract: Writing a textbook that synthesized the field from the perspectives of embryology, genetics, cell biology and molecular biology was a challenge. Because this field evolves so rapidly, a textbook can only lay the basic foundation for understanding new information and provide the framework that helps scholars place new information into context throughout their career. In this essay, I propose that an international college of specialists be established to provide authoritative online updates on developmental biology topics as a service to students and the professional developmental biology community.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Calgary, AB, Canada. browder@ucalgary.ca
authors.forename: Leon W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Browder
mesh_terms: D015509:Developmental Biology; D013782:Textbooks as Topic