Gastrulation : from cells to embryo /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stern, C. D. (Claudio D.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Sucking in the gut: a brief history of early studies on gastrulation
  • Pt. I. The embryology of gastrulation
  • Gastrulation in sponges
  • Gastrulation in the cnidaria and ctenophora
  • Gastrulation in nematodes
  • Gastrulation in the molluscan embryo
  • Gastrulation in crustaceans : germ layers and cell lineages
  • Gastrulation in Drosophila
  • Gastrulation in other insects
  • Sea urchin gastrulation
  • Protochordate gastrulation : lancelets and ascidians
  • Gastrulation in a Chondrichthyan, the dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula
  • Teleost gastrulation
  • Gastrulation in amphibians
  • Gastrulation in reptiles
  • Gastrulation in the chick
  • Gastrulation in the mouse embryo
  • Gastrulation in the rabbit
  • Gastrulation in other mammals and humans
  • Pt. II. Cellular events of gastrulation
  • Cell movements of gastrulation
  • Morphogenetic cellular flows during zebrafish gastrulation
  • Cell-substrate interactions during deuterostome gastrulation
  • Chemotaxis in coordinating cell movements during gastrulation
  • Symmetry breaking in the egg of Xenopus laevis
  • Breaking radial symmetry : amniote type
  • Vertebrate mesoderm induction : from frogs to mice
  • Dorsoventral patterning of the mesoderm
  • Early rostrocaudal patterning of the mesoderm and neural plate
  • Early patterning of the left/right axis
  • Neural induction
  • Endoderm development
  • Extraembryonic tissues
  • Pt. III. The molecular biology of gastrulation
  • FGF signaling during gastrulation
  • Modulation of BMP signaling during vertebrate gastrulation
  • Nodal signaling during gastrulation
  • Activin and Vg1 and the search for embryonic inducers
  • The role of Wnts in gastrulation
  • Roles of notch during gastrulation
  • Retinoid signaling during gastrulation
  • Role of Otx2 during gastrulation
  • Function of the winged helix transcription factor HNF3beta/FoxA2 during gastrulation
  • Role of T-Box genes during gastrulation
  • Goosecoid and gastrulation
  • Roles of Lim1 during gastrulation
  • Not homeobox gene function in axial mesoderm development
  • Role of Siamois before and during gastrulation
  • Conserved and divergent roles of Twist in gastrulation
  • The Snail gene family during gastrulation
  • System-level properties revealed by a gene regulatory network analysis of pre-gastrular specification in sea urchins
  • The extracellular matrix of the deuterostome gastrula
  • Carbohydrate and lipid modification of developmental signaling molecules
  • Pt. IV. The evolution of gastrulation
  • Comparative aspects of gastrulation
  • The evolution of gastrulation: cellular and molecular aspects
  • Fossil embryos
  • Pt. V. Open questions
  • Gastrulation overview : open questions