Early Embryonic Development of Animals

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. The Molecular Genetic Basis of Positional Information in Insect Segments

   • Joan E. Hooper, Matthew P. Scott

   Pages 1-48

3. Embryonic Development in Caenorhabditis elegans

   • Paul E. Mains

   Pages 49-90

4. Analysis of Early Development in the Zebrafish Embryo

   • Eric S. Weinberg

   Pages 91-150

5. Early Mouse Development

   • Achim Gossler

   Pages 151-201

6. Genomic Imprinting in Mammals

   • Wolf Reik

   Pages 203-229

7. Back Matter

   Pages 231-236

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Four of the major animal systems studied for the mechanisms of their early embryonic development are treated in this volume. The articles address the specific questions studied in the various systems, discuss the fundamental questions raised by the particular organism and explain the techniques used to find answers to these questions. Questions of patternformation, early organogenesis and the genetics of the early development arecovered as well as the question of parental imprinting phenomena in mammals which are important for the early differentiation. The development of the mouse, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis and the zebrafish is emphasized by leading experts of their fields, and current problems in each system are exposed. For the zebrafish the advantages of this new system for developmental biology studies are summarized and discussed in their values, while in the other system the emphasis is laid on one of the actual field of research.

• Brachydanio
• Caenorhabditis
• Drosophila
• Frühentwicklung
• Maus
• animals
• biology
• development
• developmental biology
• early development
• genetics
• insects
• mammals
• mouse
• system

• Dept. of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  Wolfgang Hennig

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