".an A-Z reference covering classical morphological and cytological terms as well as words and concepts from modern genetics and molecular biology." ( SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002) ".an excellent volume.accessible to undergraduates, graduates, and researchers alike. Appropriate for the university level users, it successfully crosses disciplines in the fields of vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, evolutionary and molecular developmental biology, and medical embryology.

There is nothing else quite like this available." (E-STREAMS, Vol. 5, No. 12, December 2002) "Dr. Dye has provided a reference book for students and scientists interested in development that provides easy access in one location to the answers to a lot of detailed and difficult questions [.] The book is concise, thorough [.] and useful. It is a nice piece of work that appropriately fills an empty niche in the scientific literature.

" (James L. Culberson, Ph.D., School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, West Virginia University) "[Frank Dye] has done a superb job collecting and defining the myriad terms used in developmental biology and has done so with precision, clarity, and completeness.the detailed nature of the definitions show great mastery of the field.the inclusion of short biographies of historical figures is outstanding and gives great depth to the book." (Mary Tyler, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maine).