GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
The beginnings of developmental biology in Swiss universities
... embryonic structures originate. F. Baltzer (1886-1974) initiated original studies on the role of nuclear and cytoplasmic factors in the development of sea urchin hybrids and newt merogons. Through his experiments on ...
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The morphogenesis of evolutionary developmental biology
... These molecular differences in gene regulation are now being found. Rockman and Wray (2002) have shown that quantitative changes in the expression of regulatory genes during develop- ment are probably the major source of ...
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Historical perspectives on plant developmental biology
... more developmental processes, hence plant developmental biology became the generally ac- cepted ...from genetics, molecular biology and cell biology to study processes in ...
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Inclusion and exclusion in the history of developmental biology
... ‘ developmental biology ’ was founded after World War II, it was not just another word for embryology (Horder, ...present developmental biology as ‘ the stem cell of biological disciplines ’ ...
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Developmental biology in Australia and New Zealand
... molecular genetics of flower development (David Symth, School of Biological Sciences), differentiation in cells of the testis (Kate Loveland, Monash Medical Centre), and transcriptional regulation of mesoderm ...
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Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: annelids
... the developmental genetics of annelid segmentation have thus far been heavily reliant on the candidate gene approach, taking as a starting point the relatively well understood system of segmentation in the ...
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Developmental Genetics of Adaptation in Fishes: The Case for Novelty
... Many authors have discussed whether there are general rules governing evolutionary developmental biology (Gerhart and Kirschner 1997; Wilkins 2002; Carroll 2005). Davidson and Erwin (2006) have codified ...
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Teaching and research on Developmental Biology in Portugal
... onwards, developmental biology became progressively more visible in ...in developmental biology as a field to work in, they had to have heard about it during their ...of developmental ...
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The Ascendency of Developmental Genetics, or How the T Complex Educated a Generation of Developmental Biologists
... classical genetics at a time when the field of mammalian developmental biology and espe- cially mammalian developmental genetics barely ex- ...of developmental biology was ...
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Mammalian Developmental Genetics in the Twentieth Century
... development biology and ...of developmental biology and genetics seems natural, indeed inevitable, today, it was cer- tainly not always the ...in developmental biology that em- ...
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Spemann's influence on Japanese developmental biology
... extensive isolation or recombination experiments on the presump- tive organizer of preblastula-stage embryos, Nakamura concluded that the essential characteristics of the organizer are gradually acquired epigenetically ...
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Developmental biology of the murine egg cylinder
... Int J De, BioI 35 161 176 (1991) 16\ SjJecial Review Developmental biology of the murine egg cylinder NIKOLA SKREB", DAVOR SOL TER2 and IVAN DAMJANOV' Ilnstitute of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Unive[.] ...
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Spemann's heritage in Finnish developmental biology
... of developmental biology can be considered a direct descendant of Spemann´s school as both the original technology and the fundamental problems were introduced into Finland by Gunnar Ekman (1883-1937) who ...
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DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS OF DROSOPHILA
... Salivary gland cells of Drosophila larvae are known not to synthesize alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) , whereas this enzyme occurs in many other cell types, e.g., the larval fat body.. [r] ...
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Developmental biology of zebrafish myeloid cells
... Zebrafish eosinophils, characterised by an eosinophilic cyto- plasm and a small, non-segmented, peripherally located nucleus, reside in the kidney and circulation (Bennett et al., 2001; Lieschke et al., 2001). Their ...
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A “Brief History” of Developmental Biology in Israel
... of Developmental Biology. While the history of developmental biology in Israel is relatively short, its impact is far-reaching, so we wanted to present a concise perspective on the Israeli ...
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Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: Cnidaria
... Manipulations of tissues and cells in polyps and embryos Transplantation experiments (Browne, 1909), in which a piece of tissue was grafted laterally onto a host polyp, revealed the involvement of two ...
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Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: the tunicates
... First, whereas Ciona and Halocynthia larvae are very simple, with ~2500 cells and little differentiation of adult structures, the larvae of many colonial ascidians are complex, with precocious differentiation of adult ...
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On the present situation of developmental biology in France
... Int I Dc," Riolo J I ~;'i J] (1990) 25 On the present situation of Developmental Biology in France Developmental Biology, an outgrowth of traditional embryology now tightly linked with modern molecula[.] ...
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THE DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS OF APTEROUS MUTANTS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
... Flies of various genotypes belong to one of two groups with respect to adult adipose tissue: those having relatively small amounts and those having normal amounts.. In the[r] ...
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