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Wenner-Gren Volume 76
Regulatory Processes in Development

Edited by K-O Jacobson and L Olsson

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Stockholm, Sweden and Uppsala University, Sweden

Wenner-Gren

This book contains the proceedings from a conference honouring the 100th birthday of Sven Hörstadius, one of the great experimental embryologists of the 20th century. The chapters are written by leading researchers working in the tradition pioneered by Hörstadius. The book gives an overview of the present state of the two fields to which Hörstadius made important contributions -echinoderm embryology and vertebrate head development, but also contains contributions outside of those areas. In order to give the symposium a touch of future prospects for experimental embryology, the focus was on new developments in fields that were central to Hörstadius´ approach. Induction and pattern formation are old concepts that are now being redefined in molecular terms. The genetic control of development was beyond the grasp of Hörstadius, but is now being discovered at a breathtaking pace. The new synthesis between evolution and development is explored by several authors.

The book is of great interest to researchers and graduate students in cell and developmental biology as well as to zoologists and evolutionary biologists.

Contents:

Preface C-O Jacobson and L Olsson

Sven Hörstadius, the man and his work C-O Jacobson

The scientific publications of Sven Hörstadius - a bibliography L Olsson

Section 1. Experimental Embryology of Echinoderms

Specification of mesoderm and endoderm during cleavage in sea urchin embryos DR McClay et al.

The ontogeny of cell guidance information in an embryonic epithelium
CA Ettensohn et al.

The evolution of sea urchin development GA Wray

Section 2. Neural Crest Biology

Formation and lineage of the neural crest M Bronner-Fraser

From multipotent neural crest precursors to differentiated cells: The role of the endothelin signalling pathway E Dupin et al.

Hindbrain neural crest segmentation: tracing compartments through development and evolution G Köntges and A Lumsden

The evolution of the neural crest in vertebrates BK Hall

Section 3. Frontiers in Developmental Biology

Limb morphogenesis and evolution: The molecular genetic approach Y Hérault et al.

Morphogenesis at single-cell resolution: studying changes in the shape of the embryo in the tradition of Hörstadius J Hardin et al.

Section 4. Short contributions

Paracentrotus lividus animal - vegetal axis and Paracentrotus lividus apoptosis G Giudice

A twist in sea urchin gastrulation and mesoderm specification W Wang et al.

Neural crest contributions to cranial muscle fate and patterning in the Mexican axolotl L Olsson et al.

Green Fluorescent Protein used to assess cranial neural crest derivatives in the frog, Xenopus laevisTF Carl et al.

The role of FGF-8 and BMP-2-4 in the outgrowth and patterning of the chick embryonic maxillary primordium J-P Bogardi et al.

Genetic analysis of PG-M/versican and Steel factor as candidates for the white (d) gene in the axolotl M Stigson et al.

Taste buds in ectoderm are induced by endoderm: implications for mechanisms governing taste bud development LA Barlow

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