Invertebrate and Vertebrate Eye Development

✍ Scribed by Ross L. Cagan and Thomas A. Reh (Eds.)

Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 337
Series: Current Topics in Developmental Biology 93
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Vision is our primary sensory modality and we are naturally curious as to how the visual system assembles. The visual system is in many ways remarkably simple, a repeating assemblage of neurons and support cells that parse the visual field through precision and redundancy. Through this simplicity the eye has often led the way in our exploration of how an organ is assembled. Eye development has therefore long been a favorite for exploring mechanisms of cell fate choice, patterning and cell signaling. This volume, which is part of the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights the exceptional advances over the past twenty years Contributions from researchers who are active in identifying new paradigms to explore Review of our current state of knowledge Chapters written by authors with a new generation approach that takes a more systems approach to identifying factors and better defines cell subtypes

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Series Editors
Page ii

Copyright
Page iv

Contributors
Pages ix-x

Preface
Pages xi-xii
Ross L. Cagan, Thomas A. Reh

Chapter one - Retinal Determination: The Beginning of Eye Development
Pages 1-28
Justin P. Kumar

Chapter two - Eye Field Specification in Xenopus laevis
Pages 29-60
Michael E. Zuber

Chapter Three - Eye Morphogenesis and Patterning of the Optic Vesicle
Pages 61-84
Sabine Fuhrmann

Chapter Four - Two Themes on the Assembly of the Drosophila Eye
Pages 85-127
Sujin Bao

Chapter Five - Building a Fly Eye: Terminal Differentiation Events of the Retina, Corneal Lens, and Pigmented Epithelia
Pages 129-173
Mark Charlton-Perkins, Tiffany A. Cook

Chapter six - Retinal Progenitor Cells, Differentiation, and Barriers to Cell Cycle Reentry
Pages 175-188
Denise M. Davis, Michael A. Dyer

Chapter Seven - Planar Cell Polarity Signaling in the Drosophila Eye
Pages 189-227
Andreas Jenny

Chapter Eight - Milestones and Mechanisms for Generating Specific Synaptic Connections between the Eyes and the Brain
Pages 229-259
Nicko J. Josten, Andrew D. Huberman

Index
Pages 261-265

Contents of Previous Volumes
Pages 267-300

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