New Principles in Developmental Processes

✍ Scribed by Hisato Kondoh, Atsushi Kuroiwa (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Japan
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During the last decade, modern technologies have made a revolutionary change in developmental biology. The molecular and cellular processes in live embryos can now be visualized thanks to technologies using fluorescent proteins. The whole genome information of a wide range of animal species has now become available, confirming the common principles that operate in every species. These and other advances in our understanding of the developmental processes during embryogenesis and tissue regeneration have put forward new principles. Those new principles will also be important in the stem cell biology, branched from developmental biology, in order to generate a particular tissue by manipulating stem cells. This book is planned to introduce these new principles to readers who are working in developmental biology and/or stem cell biology fields, with an emphasis on genetic and cellular processes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Taxon-Specific Maternal Factors for Germline Specification....Pages 3-11
Establishment of Anterior–Posterior Axis in the Mouse Embryo....Pages 13-26
Cell Competition: The Struggle for Existence in Multicellular Communities....Pages 27-40
Position-Dependent Hippo Signaling Controls Cell Fates in Preimplantation Mouse Embryos....Pages 41-53
Building Functional Internal Organs from a Naïve Endodermal Sheet....Pages 55-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Determination of Stem Cell Fate in Planarian Regeneration....Pages 71-83
Regulation of Axial Stem Cells Deriving Neural and Mesodermal Tissues During Posterior Axial Elongation....Pages 85-96
Tbx1/Ripply3/Retinoic Acid Signal Network That Regulates Pharyngeal Arch Development....Pages 97-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Interaction of Epithelial Cells and Basement Membrane in the Regulation of EMT Exemplified in Chicken Embryo Gastrulation....Pages 111-121
Making the Neural Plate to Fold into a Tube....Pages 123-136
Contribution of Apoptosis in Cranial Neural Tube Closure Indicated by Mouse Embryo Live Imaging....Pages 137-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Secondary Smad1/5/8-Dependent Signaling Downstream of SHH Determines Digit Identity....Pages 151-160
Deciphering Cerebellar Neural Circuitry Involved in Higher Order Functions Using the Zebrafish Model....Pages 161-184
Primitive Erythroblast Cell Autonomously Regulates the Timing of Blood Circulation Onset via a Control of Adherence to Endothelium....Pages 185-195
Limb Regeneration: Reconstitution of Complex Organs Using Specific Tissue Interactions....Pages 197-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Context-Dependent Bidirectional Modulation of Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling....Pages 213-225
The Role of Tsukushi as an Extracellular Signaling Coordinator....Pages 227-238
Divergent Roles of Heparan Sulfate in Regulation of FGF Signaling During Mammalian Embryogenesis....Pages 239-251
Cooperation of Signaling for Tissue Interaction and Hox Genes in Tissue Precursor Patterning....Pages 253-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Molecular and Cellular Bases of Sexual Flexibility in Vertebrates....Pages 265-278
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Differential Use of Paralogous Genes via Evolution of Cis -Regulatory Elements for Divergent Expression Specificities....Pages 279-289
Fins and Limbs: Emergence of Morphological Differences....Pages 291-302
The Turtle Evolution: A Conundrum in Vertebrate Evo-Devo....Pages 303-314
Back Matter....Pages 315-321

✦ Subjects

Developmental Biology; Stem Cells; Cell Biology