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• Section 1 Microbial Systems, Both Prokaryote and Eukaryote.- 1 Virus Assembly and Morphogenesis.- 2 Bacillus subtilis Sporulation: a Paradigm for the Spatial and Temporal Control of Gene Expression.- 3 Development in Caulobacter crescentus.- 4 Streptomyces coelicolor: a Mycelial, Spore-Bearing Prokaryote.- 5 The Programme of Cell Type Determination in Fission Yeast.- 6 Development in Neurospora crassa.- 7 Genetic Regulation of Sporulation in the Fungus Aspergillus nidulans.- 8 Development of Trypanosomes.- 9 Dictyostelium: From Unicellularity to Multicellularity.- 10 Control of the Cell Cycle in Yeasts.- 11 Orcadian Rhythms of Neurospora.- Section 2 Plants.- 12 Regulation of Development in the Moss, Physcomitrella patens.- 13 Plant Photoperception: the Phytochrome System.- 14 Exploration of Agrobacterium tumefaciens.- 15 Exploitation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens.- 16 Developmental Genetics of Arabidopsis.- 17 Homeotic Genes in the Genetic Control of Flower Morphogenesis in Antirrhinum majus.- 18 The Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis.- Section 3 Animals.- 19 Embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans.- 20 Generation of Temporal and Cell Lineage Asymmetry During C. elegans Development.- 21 Genetic and Molecular Analysis of Early Pattern Formation in Drosophila.- 22 Generation of Pattern in Drosophila melanogaster Adult Flies.- 23 Genetic Mechanisms in Early Neurogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster.- 24 Xenopus Embryogenesis.- 25 The Developmental Regulation of the Genes Coding for 5S Ribosomal RNA in Xenopus laevis.- 26 From Drosophila to Mouse.- 27 Cloning Developmental Mutants from the Mouse t Complex.- 28 The Use of in Situ Hybridisation to Study the Molecular Genetics of Mouse Development.- 29 Insertional Mutagenesis and Mouse Development.- 30 The Introduction of Genes into Mouse Embryos and Stem Cells.- 31 Skeletal Muscle Differentiation.- 32 Hepatocyte Differentiation.- 33 Cellular Differentiation in the Hematopoietic System: an Introduction.- 34 The Role of Oncogenes in Myeloid Differentiation.- 35 Developmental Regulation of Human Globin Genes: a Model for Cell Differentiation in the Hematopoietic System.- 36 Growth Control in Animal Cells.