Frontiers in Developmental Biology

Robert A. Meyers obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and has more than 17 patents, 50 technical papers and 12 books to his name. As Editor-in-Chief he conceived and edited several ambitious multivolume reference works, e.g. the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry (Wiley), the Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine (Wiley-VCH) and the Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology (Academic Press).

Preface VII Part I Introduction 1 1 Developmental Cell Biology 3 Frank J. Dye Part II Evolutionary Developmental Biology 29 2 Biosynthesis and Directed Evolution of Unnatural Peptides and Proteins 31 Travis S. Young 3 Modes and Mechanisms of Speciation 71 Hannes Schuler, Glen R. Hood, Scott P. Egan, and Jeffrey L. Feder 4 Molecular Darwinism: Natural Strategies of Spontaneous Genetic Variation 105 Werner Arber 5 Origination, Variation, and Conservation of Animal Body Plan Development 129 Stuart A. Newman 6 Paleogenomics 163 Peter D. Heintzman, Andr E. R. Soares, Dan Chang, and Beth Shapiro 7 Plant Genome Surveillance by Small RNAs and Long Noncoding RNAs 189 Yi Li and Feng Qu 8 RNA Protocells 213 Pierre-Alain Monnard and David Deamer 9 Systematics and Evolution 227 Jeffrey H. Schwartz 10 The Minimal Gene-Set Machinery 271 Kingsley N. Ukwaja Part III Cell Migration and Morphogenesis 313 11 Development of the Autonomic Nervous System 315 Wing Hei Chan, Lincon A. Stamp, Caroline S. Hirst, Sonja J. McKeown, Colin R. Anderson, and Heather M. Young 12 Left-Right Asymmetric Morphogenesis in Drosophila and other Invertebrates: The Discovery of Intrinsic Cell Chirality and its Functions 359 Mikiko Inaki, Jingyang Liu, and Kenji Matsuno 13 Molecular Morphogenesis: Gene Expression Patterns in Animals 383 Xiaohong Wang and Werner E.G. Mller Part IV Gametogenesis, Fertilization and Early Embryogenesis 425 14 Deciphering the Epigenetic Code of Embryonic Neurogenesis 427 Abhijeet Pataskar, Johannes Jung, and Vijay K. Tiwari 15 Embryonic Patterning of the Vertebrate Skin 467 Julia Neguer and Marie Manceau 16 Nuclear Transfer for Cloning Animals 497 Andras Dinnyes, Xiuchun (Cindy) Tian, and Bjrn Oback 17 Regulation in the Early Drosophila Embryo 539 Brian Gebelein and Jun Ma Part V Organogenesis 567 18 Growing Mini-Organs from Stem Cells 569 Hiroyuki Koike, Tamir Rashid, and Takanori Takebe Index 591