Bio 351 | Developmental Biology

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30 - 11:50
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Readings from the Literature
Most references are available via the library's connection to the journals. *Indicates that electronic version is unavailable via the library. All papers are available on CD.
Date	Topic	Reference
Aug 28	Do genes control development?	*Nijhout (1990) Bioessays 12: 441-446.
"	DNA = program or data?	E. Keller (1999) J. Exp. Zool. 285: 283-290.
Aug 30	Sea urchin micromeres	Ransick & Davidson (1993) Science 259: 1134-1138.
Sep 4	Ascidian juju	Nishida & Sawada (2001) Nature 409: 724-729.
Sep 6	UV rescue in frogs	*Scharf & Gerhart (1980) Developmental Biology 79: 181-198.
Sep 11	Frog juju	Kageura (1997) Development 124: 1543-1551.
Sep 13	Molecular juju	Lemaire et al. (1995) Cell 81: 85-94.
Sep 18	It's not all juju	*R. Keller (1981) J. Exp. Zool. 216: 81-101.
Sep 20	Juju in fish	Warren et al. (1996) Nature 438: 1030-1035.
Sep 25	Annelid morphogenesis	*Stent & Weisblat (1982) Sci. American, Jan. issue, pp 136-146.
Sep 27	Equal-cleaving molluscs	v. d. Biggelaar (1981) pp. 526-538 in Int. Cell Biology* 1980-1981.
Oct 2	Fuzzy logic in flies	Houchmandzadh et al. (2002) Nature 415: 798-802. [See also accompanying News & Views article.]
Oct 4	Ultrabithorax in butterflies	Warren et al. (1994) Nature 372: 458-461.
Oct 9	Spiders aren't flies	Akiyama-Oda & Oda (2003) Development 130: 1735-1747.
Oct 11	Primitive streak in birds	Bachvarova et al. (1998) Development 125: 3521-3534.
-Oct 23	Is there an A-V axis in mice?	Plusa et al. (2005) Nature 434: 391-395. [See also Hiirage et al. Nature 442 doi 10.1038/nature04907 (2006)]