The mouse as a developmental model / Paul T. Sharpe -- Culture of postimplantation mouse embryos / Paul Martin and David L. Cockroft -- Organ culture in the analysis of tissue interactions / Irma Thesleff and Carin Sahlberg -- Treatment of mice with retinoids in vivo and in vitro / Gillian M. Morriss-Kay -- Analysis of skeletal ontogenesis through differential staining of bone and cartilage / Michael J. Depew -- Cell grafting and labeling in postimplantation mouse embryos / Gabriel A. Quinlan ... [et al.] -- Production of transgenic rodents by the microinjection of cloned DNA into fertilized one-celled eggs / David Murphy -- Cre recombinase mediated alterations of the mouse genome using embryonic stem cells / Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Melinda Pirity, and András Nagy -- Gene trapping in mouse embryonic stem cells / Jane Brennan and William C. Skarnes -- Application of lacZ transgenic mice to cell lineage studies / Catherine M. Watson ... [et al.] -- Transgenic RNA interference to investigate gene function in the mouse / Tilo Kunath -- Mouse primordial germ cells : isolation and in vitro culture / Patricia A. Labosky and Brigid L.M. Hogan -- Gene transfer to the rodent embryo by retroviral vectors / Marla B. Luskin -- The avian embryo : an overview / Ivor Mason -- Chick embryos : incubation and isolation / Ivor Mason -- New culture / Amata Hornbruch -- EC culture : a method to culture early chick embryos / Andrea Streit -- Grafting Henson's node / Claudio D. Stern -- Microsurgical manipulation of the notochord / Lúcia E. Alvares ... [et al.] -- Transplantation of avian neural tissue / Sarah Guthrie -- Grafting of apical ridge and polarizing region / Cheryl Tickle -- Tissue recombinations in collagen gels / Marysia Placzek -- Quail-chick chimeras / Marie-Aimée Teillet, Catherine Ziller, and Nicole M. Le Douarin -- Using fluorescent dyes for fate mapping, lineage analysis, and axon tracing in the chick embryo / Jonathan D.W. Clarke -- Gene transfer in avian embryos using replication-competent retroviruses / Cairine Logan and Philippa Francis-West -- Electroporation in avian embryos / Jun-ichi Funahashi and Harukazu Nakamura -- An overview of Xenopus development / Michael Jones and James C. Smith -- Mesoderm induction assays / C. Michael Jones and James C. Smith -- Experimental embryological methods for analysis of neural induction in the amphibian / Ray Keller, Ann Poznanski, and Tamira Elul -- A method for generating transgenic frog embryos / Shoko Ishibashi, Kristin L. Kroll, and Enrique Amaya -- Axolotl/newt / Malcolm Maden -- The zebrafish : an overview of its early development / Nigel Holder and Qiling Xu -- Small-scale marker-based screening for mutations in zebrafish development / Peter D. Currie, Thomas F. Schilling, and Philip W. ingham -- Microinjection and cell transplantation in zebrafish embryos / Qiling Xu, Derek Stemple, and Katherine Joubin -- Recent advances in meganuclease- and transposon-mediated transgenesis of medaka and zebrafish / Clemens Grabher and Joachim Wittbrodt -- Retinoids in nonmammalian embryos / Malcolm Maden -- Protochordates / Peter W.H. Holland and Hiroshi Wada -- Subtractive hybridization and construction of cDNA libraries / Bruce Blumberg and Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte -- Differential display of eukaryotic mRNA / Antonio Tugores and Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte -- Using DNA microarrays / Clare Pritchard, Peter Underhill, and Andy Greenfield -- Profiling gene transcription in the developing embryo : microarray analysis on gene chips / David Chambers and Andrew Lumsden -- RT-PCR on embryos using degenerate oligonucleotide primers / Anthony Graham -- Single-cell RT-PCR cDNA subraction / Ebrahim Sakhinia ... [et al.] -- In-situ hybridization of rdioactive riboprobes to RNA in tissue sections / Radma Mahmood and Ivor Mason -- In-situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry in whole embryos / Carol Irving -- Wholemount in situ hybridization to Xenopus embryos / C. Michael Jones and James C. Smith -- Wholemount in situ hybridization to Amphioxus embryos / Peter W.H. Holland -- In-situ hybridization to sections (nonradioactive) / Maria Rex and Paul J. Scotting -- Immunohistochemistry using polyester wax / Andrew Kent -- Immunohistochemistry on whole embryos / Ivor Mason -- Whole embryo assays for programmed cell death / Anthony Graham -- Protein techniques : immunoprecipitation, in vitro kinase assays, and western blotting / Clive Dickson -- Microscopy and photmicrography techniques / Richard J.T. Wingate.