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Drosophila Eye Development

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Kevin Moses

    1. Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

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  • Comprehensive and detailed descriptions of one of the best understood models for nervous system development
  • Authors are all leading experts in the field
  • Unique survey on the cellular and developmental biology of eye development, its evolutionary history and its use in human disease modeling
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation (RESULTS, volume 37)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Kevin Moses
    Pages 1-3

  3. Retinal Specification and Determination in Drosophila

    • Kartik Pappu, Graeme Mardon
    Pages 5-20

  4. Regulators of the Morphogenetic Furrow

    • Jeffrey D. Lee, Jessica E. Treisman
    Pages 21-33

  5. NOTCH and the Patterning of Ommatidial Founder Cells in the Developing Drosophila Eye

    • Nicholas E. Baker
    Pages 35-58

  6. The Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in Drosophila Eye Development

    • Justin P. Kumar
    Pages 59-71

  7. Cell Fate Specification in the Drosophila Eye

    • Raghavendra Nagaraj, Jude Canon, Utpal Banerjee
    Pages 73-88

  8. Tissue Polarity in the Retina

    • Marek Mlodzik
    Pages 89-106

  9. Regulation of Growth and Cell Proliferation During Eye Development

    • Thomas P. Neufeld, Iswar K. Hariharan
    Pages 107-133

  10. Evolution of Color Vision

    • Franck Pichaud, Claude Desplan
    Pages 135-149

  11. Developmental Regulation Through Protein Stability

    • Janice A. Fischer
    Pages 151-167

  12. Programmed Death in Eye Development

    • Rebecca Hays, Caroline Craig, Ross Cagan
    Pages 169-189

  13. Drosophila Compound Eye Morphogenesis: Blind Mechanical Engineers?

    • Donald F. Ready
    Pages 191-204

  14. The Establishment of Retinal Connectivity

    • Ulrike Gaul
    Pages 205-218

  15. Homologies Between Vertebrate and Invertebrate Eyes

    • Volker Hartenstein, Thomas A. Reh
    Pages 219-255

  16. Applications of the Drosophila Retina to Human Disease Modeling

    • Nancy M. Bonini, Mark E. Fortini
    Pages 257-275

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 277-282
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1 Kevin Moses It is now 25 years since the study of the development of the compound eye in Drosophila really began with a classic paper (Ready et al. 1976). In 1864, August Weismann published a monograph on the development of Diptera and included some beautiful drawings of the developing imaginal discs (Weismann 1864). One of these is the first description of the third instar eye disc in which Weismann drew a vertical line separating a posterior domain that included a regular pattern of clustered cells from an anterior domain without such a pattern. Weismann suggested that these clusters were the precursors of the adult ommatidia and that the line marks the anterior edge of the eye. In his first suggestion he was absolutely correct - in his second he was wrong. The vertical line shown was not the anterior edge of the eye, but the anterior edge of a moving wave of patterning and cell type specification that 112 years later (1976) Ready, Hansen and Benzer would name the "morphogenetic furrow". While it is too late to hear from August Weismann, it is a particular pleasure to be able to include a chapter in this Volume from the first author of that 1976 paper: Don Ready! These past 25 years have seen an astonishing explosion in the study of the fly eye (see Fig.

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  • Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

    Kevin Moses

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