Amphibian Models of Development and Disease, Volume 145 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field written by an international board of experts. New chapters in this release include Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells, Biomechanics of Amphibian Morphogenesis, Planar cell polarity during neural tube closure, Xenopus neural crest and its relevance to human disease, Endoderm organogenesis, From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs, Evo-devo lessons from the analysis of Xenopus genomes, Transcriptional regulation during zygotic genome activation, Proteomics and metabolomics for cell lineage analysis in frog embryos, and more.
1. Cover image - p. page_i 2. Title page - p. page_i 3. Table of Contents - p. page_i 4. Copyright - p. page_iv 5. Contributors - p. page_ix 6. Preface - p. page_xi 7. Section I: From early development to morphogenesis and tissue patterning - p. page_xiii 8. Chapter One: Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells - p. page_3 9. Chapter Two: Xenopus neural tube closure: A vertebrate model linking planar cell polarity to actomyosin contractions - p. page_41 10. Chapter Three: Modeling endoderm development and disease in Xenopus - p. page_61 11. Chapter Four: From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs - p. page_91 12. Section II: Systems biology approaches in amphibians - p. page_109 13. Chapter Five: LIM homeodomain proteins and associated partners: Then and now - p. page_113 14. Chapter Six: Control of zygotic genome activation in Xenopus - p. page_167 15. Chapter Seven: Mass spectrometry based proteomics for developmental neurobiology in the amphibian Xenopus laevis - p. page_205 16. Section III: Amphibian models for regeneration and disease - p. page_231 17. Chapter Eight: Salamanders: The molecular basis of tissue regeneration and its relevance to human disease - p. page_235 18. Chapter Nine: Xenopus as a platform for discovery of genes relevant to human disease - p. page_277 19. Chapter Ten: Xenopus, an emerging model for studying pathologies of the neural crest - p. page_313
Amphibian Models of Development and Disease, Volume 145 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field written by an international board of experts. New chapters in this release include Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells, Biomechanics of Amphibian Morphogenesis, Planar cell polarity during neural tube closure, Xenopus neural crest and its relevance to human disease, Endoderm organogenesis, From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs, Evo-devo lessons from the analysis of Xenopus genomes, Transcriptional regulation during zygotic genome activation, Proteomics and metabolomics for cell lineage analysis in frog embryos, and more.
1. Cover image - p. page_i 2. Title page - p. page_i 3. Table of Contents - p. page_i 4. Copyright - p. page_iv 5. Contributors - p. page_ix 6. Preface - p. page_xi 7. Section I: From early development to morphogenesis and tissue patterning - p. page_xiii 8. Chapter One: Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells - p. page_3 9. Chapter Two: Xenopus neural tube closure: A vertebrate model linking planar cell polarity to actomyosin contractions - p. page_41 10. Chapter Three: Modeling endoderm development and disease in Xenopus - p. page_61 11. Chapter Four: From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs - p. page_91 12. Section II: Systems biology approaches in amphibians - p. page_109 13. Chapter Five: LIM homeodomain proteins and associated partners: Then and now - p. page_113 14. Chapter Six: Control of zygotic genome activation in Xenopus - p. page_167 15. Chapter Seven: Mass spectrometry based proteomics for developmental neurobiology in the amphibian Xenopus laevis - p. page_205 16. Section III: Amphibian models for regeneration and disease - p. page_231 17. Chapter Eight: Salamanders: The molecular basis of tissue regeneration and its relevance to human disease - p. page_235 18. Chapter Nine: Xenopus as a platform for discovery of genes relevant to human disease - p. page_277 19. Chapter Ten: Xenopus, an emerging model for studying pathologies of the neural crest - p. page_313
