Gastrulation: From Cells to Embryo 

0-87969-707-5

978-0-87969-707-5

C. Stern, ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004, 800 pp., hard cover

1. Sucking in the Gut: A Brief History of Early Studies on Gastrulation
Part I: The Embryology of Gastrulation
2. Gastrulation in Sponges
3. Gastrulation in the Cnidaria and Ctenophora
4. Gastrulation in Nematodes
5. Gastrulation in the Molluscan Embryo
6. Gastrulation in Crustaceans: Germ Layers and Cell Lineages
7. Gastrulation in Drosophila
8. Gastrulation in Other Insects
9. Sea Urchin Gastrulation
10. Protochordate Gastrulation: Lancelets and Ascidians
11. Gastrulation in a Chondrichthyan, the Dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula
12. Teleost Gastrulation
13. Gastrulation in Amphibians
14. Gastrulation in Reptiles
15. Gastrulation in the Chick
16. Gastrulation in the Mouse Embryo
17. Gastrulation in the Rabbit
18. Gastrulation in Other Mammals and Humans
Part II: Cellular Events of Gastrulation
19. Cell Movements of Gastrulation
20. Morphogenetic Cellular Flows during Zebrafish Gastrulation
21. Cell-Substrate Interactions during Deuterostome Gastrulation
22. Chemotaxis in Coordinating Cell Movements during Gastrulation
23. Symmetry Breaking in the Egg of Xenopus laevis
24. Breaking Radial Symmetry: Amniote Type
25. Vertebrate Mesoderm Induction: From Frogs to Mice
26. Dorsoventral Patterning of the Mesoderm
27. Early Rostrocaudal Patterning of the Mesoderm and Neural Plate
28. Early Patterning of the Left/Right Axis
29. Neural Induction
30. Endoderm Development
31. Extraembryonic Tissues
Part III: The Molecular Biology of Gastrulation
Signaling Pathways
32. FGF Signaling during Gastrulation
33. Modulation of BMP Signaling during Vertebrate Gastrulation
34. Nodal Signaling during Gastrulation
35. Activin and Vg1 and the Search for Embryonic Inducers
36. The Role of Wnts in Gastrulation
37. Roles of Notch during Gastrulation
38. Retinoid Signaling during Gastrulation
Transcription Factors
39. Role of Otx2 during Gastrulation
40. Function of the Winged Helix Transcription
Factor HNF3ß/FoxA2 during Gastrulation
41. Role of T-Box Genes during Gastrulation
42. Goosecoid and Gastrulation
43. Roles of Lim1 during Gastrulation
44. Not Homeobox Gene Function in Axial Mesoderm Development
45. Role of Siamois before and during Gastrulation
46. Conserved and Divergent Roles of Twist in Gastrulation
47. The Snail Gene Family during Gastrulation
48. System-level Properties Revealed by a Gene Regulatory
Network Analysis of Pre-gastrular Specification in Sea Urchins
Extracellular Components
49. The Extracellular Matrix of the Deuterostome Gastrula
50. Carbohydrate and Lipid Modification of Developmental Signaling Molecules
Part IV: The Evolution of Gastrulation
51. Comparative Aspects of Gastrulation
52. The Evolution of Gastrulation: Cellular and Molecular Aspects
53. Fossil Embryos
Part V: Open Questions
54. Gastrulation Overview: Open Questions
Index