Amphibian Models of Development and Disease

Sergei Sokol is at Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.

"This volume will make a useful contribution to any life science research library." --Ryan Kerney, The Quarterly Review of Biology.

• Section IFrom early development to morphogenesis and tissue patterning1. Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells Caitlin Collins, Rosa Ventrella, and Brian J. Mitchell2. Xenopus neural tube closure: A vertebrate model linking planar cell polarity to actomyosin contractions Miho Matsuda and Sergei Y. Sokol3. Modeling endoderm development and disease in Xenopus Nicole A. Edwards and Aaron M. Zorn4. From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs Eugenia M. del PinoSection IISystems biology approaches in amphibians5. LIM homeodomain proteins and associated partners: Then and now Yuuri Yasuoka and Masanori Taira6. Control of zygotic genome activation in Xenopus Ira L. Blitz and Ken W.Y. Cho7. Mass spectrometry based proteomics for developmental neurobiology in the amphibian Xenopus laevis Aparna B. Baxi, Leena R. Pade, and Peter NemesSection IIIAmphibian models for regeneration and disease8. Salamanders: The molecular basis of tissue regeneration and its relevance to human disease Claudia Marcela Arenas Gómez and Karen Echeverri9. Xenopus as a platform for discovery of genes relevant to human disease Valentyna Kostiuk and Mustafa K. Khokha10. Xenopus, an emerging model for studying pathologies of the neural crest Laura Medina-Cuadra and Anne H. Monsoro-Burq