Research Guides: BIOL 271/371: Developmental Biology (BMC): Home

Finding Background Information

Before searching the journal literature, you’ll want to look for some background information on your topic. These are some great secondary resources that can help you start your research.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS)
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A fully searchable collection of articles by scientists and historians in the fields of biochemistry and physiology, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, neuroscience, microbiology and virology, plant science, structural biology, science and society.

Current topics in developmental biology
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Current Topics in Developmental Biology (CTDB) is a long-standing series that provides comprehensive surveys of major topics in the field of developmental biology.
Current Opinion in Genetics and Development
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Aims to stimulate scientifically grounded, interdisciplinary, multi-scale debate and exchange of ideas. It contains polished, concise and timely reviews and opinions, with particular emphasis on those articles published in the past two years. In addition to describing recent trends, the authors are encouraged to give their subjective opinion of the topics discussed.
Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
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The Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, in publication since 1985, covers the most significant developments in the field of cell and developmental biology, including structure, function, and organization of the cell, development and evolution of the cell as it relates to single and multicellular organisms, and models and tools of molecular biology.
Seminars in cell and developmental biology
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A review journal dedicated to keeping scientists informed of developments in the field of molecular cell and developmental biology.
BioEssays
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A fully peer-reviewed, review-and-discussion journal publishing novel insights, forward-looking reviews and commentaries in contemporary biology with a molecular, genetic, cellular, or physiological dimension.