Cell lineage specification and patterning of the embryo
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San Diego, Calif
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Academic Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2001
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xviii, 623 p., ]16[ p. of col. plates : ill.; 24 cm
SERIES
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International review of cytology
ISSN of Series
v.203
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references and index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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guest edited by Laurence D. Etkin, Kwang W. Jeon
CONTENTS NOTE
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Specification of the cell lineages -- Determinants of cell and positional fate in Ascidian embryos -- RNA localization and germ cell determination in Xenopus -- Asymmetric germ cell division and oocyte determination during Drosophila oogenesis -- Germline in C. elegans: origins, proliferation, and silencing -- Assembly of the Drosophila germ plasm -- Early events in mammalian germ line patterning of the embryo -- Initial phase of embryonic patterning in mammals -- Cadherin and catenins, wnts and soxs: embryonic patterning in xenopus -- Establishment of left-right asymmetry -- initiation and early patterning of the endoderm -- Neural patterning in the vertebrate embryo -- Cell biology of limb patterning Mechanisms to establish polarity and initiate cell fate determination -- Defining Cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors in RNA localization -- RNA localization and translational regulation during axis specification in the Drosophila oocyte -- Translational control in vertebrate development