Invertebrate and Vertebrate Eye Development

Vision is our primary sensory modality and we are naturally curious as to how the visual system assembles. This volume includes: contributions from researchers who are active in identifying paradigms to explore; review of our state of knowledge; and, chapters written by authors with a generation approach.

List of contents

1. Retinal Determination: The Beginning of Eye Development
Justin P. Kumar
2. Eye Field Specification in Xenopus laevis
Michael E. Zuber
3. Eye Morphogenesis and Patterning of the Optic Vesicle
Sabine Fuhrmann
4. Two themes on the assembly of the Drosophila eye
Sujin Bao
5. Building a Fly Eye: Terminal Differentiation Events of the Retina, Corneal Lens, and Pigmented Epithelia
Charlton-Perkins M and Cook TA
6. Retinal Progenitor Cells, Differentiation and Barriers to Cell Cycle Re-Entry
Denise M. Davis and Michael A. Dyer
7. Planar Cell Polarity Signaling in the Drosophila Eye
Andreas Jenny
8. Generating specific synaptic connections between the eyes and the brain
Nicko J. Josten and Andrew D. Huberman

Product details

• Authors: Ross L. (EDT)/ Reh Cagen
• Assisted by: Ross L. Cagan (Editor), Ross L Cagen (Editor), Ross L. Cagen (Editor), Thomas A Reh (Editor), Thomas A. Reh (Editor), Reh Thomas A. (Editor of the series), Ross L Cagen (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.12.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780123850447
• ISBN: 978-0-12-385044-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Academic Press; Current Topics in Developmental Biology; Current Topics in Developmenta; Current Topics in Developmental Biology; Current Topics in Developmenta
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Neurosciences