Principles of Development

Lewis Wolpert, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London Jim Smith, Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge Tom Jessell, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Columbia, New York Peter Lawrence, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Elizabeth Robertson, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford Elliot Meyerowitz, California Institute of Technology

1. History and basic concepts; 2. Development of the Drosophila body plan; 3. Patterning the vertebrate body plan I: axes and germ layers; 4. Patterning the vertebrate body plan II: the mesoderm and early nervous system; 5. Development of nematodes, sea urchins, ascidians, and slime molds; 6. Plant development; 7. Morphogenesis: change in form in the early embryo; 8. Cell differentiation; 9. Organogenesis; 10. Development of the nervous system; 11. Germ cells and sex; 12. Regeneration; 13. Growth and post-embryonic development; 14. Evolution and development; GLOSSARY