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Cell Polarity in Development and Disease, Volume 154 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Cell polarity in the protist-to-animal transition, Polarized actin networks in development: Case studies from Drosophila, Protein clustering and cell polarization, Polarity in the Drosophila female germline, Context Matters: Mechanisms governing epithelial polarization in C. elegans, Epithelial polarity in the fly: Principles and diversity, Polarizing epithelial expulsion and expulsion driven by mispolarization, The Role of Apical-Basal Polarization in the Mammalian First Cell Fate Decision, and much more.
List of contents
1. Cell polarity in the protist-to-animal transition
David Booth and Thibaut Brunet
2. Polarized actin networks in development: Case studies from Drosophila
Tony Harris
3. Protein clustering and cell polarization
Edwin Munro
4. Polarity in the Drosophila female germline
Daniel St Johnston
5. Context Matters: Mechanisms governing epithelial polarization in C. elegans
Jessica Feldman
6. Epithelial polarity in the fly: Principles and diversity.
Ulrich Tepass
7. Polarising epithelial expulsion and expulsion driven by mispolarisation
Romain Levayer
8. The Role of Apical-Basal Polarization in the Mammalian First Cell Fate Decision
Magdalena M. Zernicka-Goetz
9. Polarity in immune cells
Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil and Paolo Pierobon
10. Mammalian Dachsous and Fat cadherins in tissue organization
Helen McNeill
11. Polarity in breast development and cancer
Luke McCaffrey
12. Polarity in lung development and disease
Xaralabos Varelas
13. Polarity in skin development and cancer
Terry Lechler
About the author
Ulrich Tepass is at University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
