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.
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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)]