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Gastrulation

Movements, Patterns and Molecules

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Ray Keller

    1. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Wallis H. Clark

    1. Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis, Bodega Bay, USA

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  3. Frederick Griffin

    1. Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis, Bodega Bay, USA

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Part of the book series: Bodega Marine Laboratory Marine Science Series (BMSS)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Cell Movements in the Epiblast During Gastrulation and Neurulation in Avian Embryos

    • Gary C. Schoenwolf
    Pages 1-28

  3. Mesoderm Formation in the Chick Embryo, Revisited

    • Claudio D. Stern
    Pages 29-41

  4. Culture of Embryonic Cells for Analysis of Amphibian and Mammalian Early Embryogenesis

    • Norio Nakatsuji, Koichiro Hashimoto
    Pages 43-56

  5. Organizing the Xenopus Organizer

    • John Gerhart, Tabitha Doniach, Ronald Stewart
    Pages 57-77

  6. The Arrangement of Early Inductive Signals in Relation to Gastrulation; Results from Frog and Chick

    • Jonathan Cooke
    Pages 79-99

  7. Cell Motility, Control and Function of Convergence and Extension during Gastrulation in Xenopus

    • Ray Keller, John Shih, Paul Wilson
    Pages 101-119

  8. In vivo Analysis of Convergent Cell Movements in The Germ Ring of Fundulus

    • J. P. Trinkaus, Madeleine Trinkaus, Rachel D. Fink
    Pages 121-134

  9. Dynamical Models for Cell Rearrangement During Morphogenesis

    • Michael Weliky, George Oster
    Pages 135-146

  10. Mesoderm Cell Migration in the Xenopus Gastrula

    • Rudolf Winklbauer, Andreas Selchow, Martina Nagel, Cornelia Stoltz, Brigitte Angres
    Pages 147-168

  11. Amphibian Gastrulation: The Molecular Bases of Mesodermal Cell Migration in Urodele Embryos

    • Jean-Claude Boucaut, Thierry Darribère, De Li Shi, Jean-Francois Riou, Kurt E. Johnson, Michel Delarue
    Pages 169-184

  12. The Expression of Fibronectins and Integrins During Mesodermal Induction and Gastrulation in Xenopus

    • Douglas W. DeSimone, Jim C. Smith, James E. Howard, David G. Ransom, Karen Symes
    Pages 185-198

  13. Mechanics and Genetics of Cell Shape Changes during Drosophila Ventral Furrow Formation

    • Maria Leptin
    Pages 199-212

  14. Convergence and Extension during Germband Elongation in Drosophila Embryos

    • Eric Wieschaus, Dari Sweeton, Michael Costa
    Pages 213-223

  15. Ultraviolet-Sensitive Determinants of Gastrulation and Axis Development in the Ascidian Embryo

    • William R. Jeffery
    Pages 225-250

  16. Rapid Evolution of Early Development: Reorganization of Early Morphogenetic Processes in a Direct-Developing Sea Urchin

    • Rudolf A. Raff, Jonathan J. Henry, Gregory A. Wray
    Pages 251-280

  17. Sea Urchin Micromeres, Mesenchyme, and Morphogenesis

    • Fred H. Wilt, Nikolaos C. George, Oded Khaner
    Pages 281-288

  18. Primary Mesenchyme cell Migration in the Sea Urchin Embryo

    • Charles A. Ettensohn
    Pages 289-304

  19. Cell-Extracellular Matrix Interactions During Primary Mesenchyme Formation in the Sea Urchin Embryo

    • Michael Solursh, Mary Constance Lane
    Pages 305-311

  20. The Role of Cell Adhesion During Gastrulation in The Sea Urchin

    • David R. McClay
    Pages 313-327
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Gastrulation is a fundamental process of early embryonic development. It involves virtually every aspect of cell and developmental biology and results in the formation of fundamental structural elements around which a developing animal's body plan is organized. As such it is not only an important process, but also one that is complicated and not easily dissected into its component parts. To understand the mechanisms of gastrulation one must acknowledge that gastrulation is fundamentally a biomechanical process (that is, a problem of cells generating forces in a three dimensional array, patterned in space and time such that appropriate tissue movements are executed). Three intertwined questions emerge: what cell activities generate forces, how are these cell activities patterned in space and time, and how are the resulting forces harnessed in three dimensional domains? To address these issues it is important to define and characterize regional cell behaviors and to learn how they are patterned in the egg and/ or by subsequent cell and tissue interactions. At the biochemical level, what are the cellular and extracellular molecules that control cell behavior? Finally, how are specific patterns of cellular activity integrated to produce tissue behavior? The task of answering the above questions, an immense task in itself, is compounded by the fact that the morphogenetic movements of gastrulation and their underlying mechanisms vary between different organisms.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

    Ray Keller

  • Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis, Bodega Bay, USA

    Wallis H. Clark, Frederick Griffin

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