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Gradients and Tissue Patterning

  • 1st Edition, Volume 137 - March 4, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Stephen Small, James Briscoe
  • Language: English

Gradients and Tissue Patterning, Volume 137 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting inter… Read more

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Gradients and Tissue Patterning, Volume 137 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Key features

  • Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
  • Presents the latest release in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series
  • Includes the latest information on gradients and tissue patterning

Readership

Clinicians in the fields of endocrinology, rheumatology, orthopedics, pediatrics and dentistry; basic scientists in anatomy, cell and developmental biology; students and postdoctoral fellows who would like to enter these fields and make further discoveries as well as improve the treatment of major bone-related disorders

Table of contents

1. Lighting up the central dogma for predictive developmental biology
Hernan G. Garcia, Augusto Berrocal, Yang Joon Kim, Gabriella Martini and Jiaxi Zhao

2. Optogenetic approaches to investigate spatiotemporal signaling during development
Katherine W. Rogers and Patrick Müller

3. A matter of time: Formation and interpretation of the Bicoid morphogen gradient
Anqi Huang and Timothy E. Saunders

4. Constraints and limitations on the transcriptional response downstream of the Bicoid morphogen gradient
Huy Tran, Aleksandra M. Walczak and Nathalie Dostatni

5. Formation, interpretation, and regulation of the Drosophila Dorsal/NF-ΚB gradient
Allison E. Schloop, Prasad U. Bandodkar and Gregory T. Reeves

6. The design and logic of terminal patterning in Drosophila
Celia M. Smits and Stanislav Y. Shvartsman

7. Dynamic positional information: Patterning mechanism versus precision in gradient-driven systems
Johannes Jaeger and Berta Verd

8. Intracellular morphogens: Specifying patterns at the subcellular scale
Lars Hubatsch and Nathan W. Goehring

9. Insights into mammalian morphogen dynamics from embryonic stem cell systems
Elena Camacho-Aguilar and Aryeh Warmflash

10. Control of size, fate and time by the Hh morphogen in the eyes of flies
David G. Miguez, Diana Garcia-Morales and Fernando Casares

11. Genetic mechanisms controlling anterior expansion of the central nervous system
Behzad Yaghmaeian Salmani and Stefan Thor

12. Temporal dynamics in the formation and interpretation of Nodal and BMP morphogen gradients
Andrew D. Economou and Caroline S. Hill

13. Signaling regulation during gastrulation: Insights from mouse embryos and in vitro systems
Sophie M. Morgani and Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

14. Just passing through: The auxin gradient of the root meristem
Bruno Guillotin and Kenneth D. Birnbaum

15. Small RNAs as plant morphogens
Simon Klesen, Kristine Hill and Marja C.P. Timmermans

Review quotes

"For me, this volume marks a substantial shift in the morphogen gradient concept. This has fundamental importance to our understanding of embryonic development and alerts us to the often-overlooked parameter of time in dynamic systems. While this revision has likely been emerging over the last nearly 10 years, it is not easily noticed by one not working directly in the field. Consequently, I appreciate the update this book provides."—Doody

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 137
  • Published: March 4, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

SS

Stephen Small

Stephen J. Small is at Department of Biology, New York University, NY, USA
Affiliations and expertise
New York University, NY, USA

JB

James Briscoe

James Briscoe is at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Affiliations and expertise
The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

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