{Reference Type}: Journal Article {Title}: Cardiac Development and Animal Models of Congenital Heart Defects. {Author}: Kelly RG; {Journal}: Adv Exp Med Biol {Volume}: 1441 {Issue}: 0 {Year}: 2024 {Factor}: 3.65 {DOI}: 10.1007/978-3-031-44087-8_3 {Abstract}: The major events of cardiac development, including early heart formation, chamber morphogenesis and septation, and conduction system and coronary artery development, are briefly reviewed together with a short introduction to the animal species commonly used to study heart development and model congenital heart defects (CHDs).