Table of Contents:
  • Origins of the handedness of biological molecules / Stephen F. Mason
  • Macromolecular asymmetry / J.W. Galloway
  • Asymmetry in protein structures / Cyrus Chothia
  • Bacterial motility : handedness and symmetry / Howard C. Berg
  • Intracellular handedness in ciliates / Joseph Frankel
  • Two types of bilateral symmetry in the metazoa : chordate and bilaterian / R.P.S. Jefferies
  • Asymmetries during molluscan embryogenesis / Jo A.M. van den Biggelaar
  • Handed asymmetry, handedness reversal and mechanisms of cell fate determination in nematode embryos / William B. Wood, Douglas Kershaw
  • Development of the left-right axis in amphibians / H. Joseph Yost
  • Development of handed body asymmetry in mammals / Nigel A. Brown, Afshan McCarthy, Lewis Wolpert
  • Establishment of left-right asymmetry in vertebrates : genetically distinct steps are involved / Martina Brueckner, James McGrath, Peter D'Eustachio, Arthur L. Horwich
  • Asymmetries of cerebral neuroanatomy / Albert M. Galaburda
  • The asymmetrical genetic determination of laterality : flatfish, frogs and human handedness / Michael J. Morgan
  • The inheritance of left-handedness / I.C. McManus
  • Disturbance of morphological laterality in humans / John Burn
  • Laterality and motor control / Michael Peters.