Pattern Formation In Zebrafish

Author : Lilianna Solnica-Krezel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540460411
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pattern Formation in Zebrafish written by Lilianna Solnica-Krezel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by leading experts in the field, this book provides the first comprehensive overview of the mechanisms of early patterning and morphogenesis in zebrafish. It summarizes the current knowledge and the key questions for the next decade of research.

Author : Hans Meinhardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Models of Biological Pattern Formation written by Hans Meinhardt and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sheryl Coombs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146123560X
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mechanosensory Lateral Line written by Sheryl Coombs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the published proceedings of an international conference on the Neurobiology and Evolution of the Mechanosensory Lateral Line System held August 31 to September 4, 1987, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld, West Germany. The goal of this confer ence was to bring together researchers from all over the world to share informa tion about a major aquatic sensory system, the evolution and function of which have largely remained an enigma since the 18th century. The "lateral line" or "lateralis" system has been used as an umbrella term to describe what originally (without the aid of modern anatomical techniques) looked like a series of pits, grooves, and lines on the head and trunk of fishes and some amphibians. For at least the past 30 years, however, it has been recognized that the lateralis system comprises not one, but at least two functional classes of receptors: mechanoreceptors and electroreceptors. The relative ease with which the appropriate stimulus could be defined and measured for the electroreceptive class has resulted in an explosion of information on this submodality during the past 20 years. As a result, there is little ambiguity about the overall function of the electrosensory system, now generally regarded as an independent system in its own right. A similarly clear definition for the function of the mechanosensory lateralis system has not been as forthcoming.

Author : Hans Meinhardt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662036177
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells written by Hans Meinhardt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pigment patterns on tropieal shells are of great beauty and diversity. They fas cinate by their mixture of regularity and irregularity. A partieular pattern seems to follow partieular mIes but these mIes allow variations. No two shells are identical. The motionless patterns appear to be static, and, indeed, they consist of calcified material. However, as will be shown in this book, the underlying mechanism that gene rates this beauty is eminently dynamic. It has much in common with other dynamie systems that generate patterns, such as a wind-sand system that forms large dunes, or rain and erosion that form complex ramified river systems. On other shells the underlying mechanism has much in common with waves such as those commonly observed in the spread of an epidemie. A mollusc can enlarge its shell only at the shell margin. In most cases, only at this margin are new elements of the pigmentation pattern added. Therefore, the shell pattern preserves arecord in time of a process that took place in a narrow zone at the growing edge. A certain point on the shell represents a certain moment in its history. Like a time machine one can go into the past or the future just by turning the shell back and forth. Having this complete historieal record opens the possibility of decoding the generic principles behind this beauty. My interest in these patterns began with a dinner in an Italian restaurant.

Author : Florence Louise Marlow
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 161504051X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maternal Control of Development in Vertebrates written by Florence Louise Marlow and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eggs of all animals contain mRNAs and proteins that are supplied to or deposited in the egg as it develops during oogenesis. These maternal gene products regulate all aspects of oocyte development, and an embryo fully relies on these maternal gene products for all aspects of its early development, including fertilization, transitions between meiotic and mitotic cell cycles, and activation of its own genome. Given the diverse processes required to produce a developmentally competent egg and embryo, it is not surprising that maternal gene products are not only essential for normal embryonic development but also for fertility. This review provides an overview of fundamental aspects of oocyte and early embryonic development and the interference and genetic approaches that have provided access to maternally regulated aspects of vertebrate development. Some of the pathways and molecules highlighted in this review, in particular, Bmps, Wnts, small GTPases, cytoskeletal components, and cell cycle regulators, are well known and are essential regulators of multiple aspects of animal development, including oogenesis, early embryogenesis, organogenesis, and reproductive fitness of the adult animal. Specific examples of developmental processes under maternal control and the essential proteins will be explored in each chapter, and where known conserved aspects or divergent roles for these maternal regulators of early vertebrate development will be discussed throughout this review. Table of Contents: Introduction / Oogenesis: From Germline Stem Cells to Germline Cysts / Oocyte Polarity and the Embryonic Axes: The Balbiani Body, an Ancient Oocyte Asymmetry / Preparing Developmentally Competent Eggs / Egg Activation / Blocking Polyspermy / Cleavage/ Mitosis: Going Multicellular / Maternal-Zygotic Transition / Reprogramming: Epigenetic Modifications and Zygotic Genome Activation / Dorsal-Ventral Axis Formation before Zygotic Genome Activation in Zebrafish and Frogs / Maternal TGF-β and the Dorsal-Ventral Embryonic Axis / Maternal Control After Zygotic Genome Activation / Compensation by Stable Maternal Proteins / Maternal Contributions to Germline Establishment or Maintenance / Perspective / Acknowledgments / References

Author : Hisashi Hashimoto
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811614903
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigments, Pigment Cells and Pigment Patterns written by Hisashi Hashimoto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively summarizes the biological mechanisms of coloration and pattern formation of animals at molecular and cellular level, offering up-to-date knowledge derived from remarkable progress in the last 10 years. The brilliant coloration, conspicuous patterns and spectacular color changes displayed by some vertebrates and invertebrates are generally their strategies of the utmost importance for survival. Consists of mainly three parts, starts with introductory chapter, such as Pigments and Pigment Organelles, Developmental Genetics of Pigment Cell Formation, Adult Pigment Patterns, and Color Changes, this book introduces new pigment compounds in addition to classically known pigments and organelles, explains how the generation of multiple types of pigment cell is genetically controlled, describes the mechanisms underlying the zebrafish stripe formation as well as other animals and also summarizes the mechanism of physiological and morphological color changes of teleost, amphibian and cephalopod. Written by experts in the field, this book will be essential reading for graduate students and researchers in biological fields who are interested in pigmentation mechanisms of animals.

Author : Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199638086
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zebrafish written by Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The zebrafish has become one of the most important model organisms to study biological processes within a living body. As a vertebrate that has many of the strengths of invertebrate model systems, it offers numerous advantages to researchers interested in many aspects of embryonic development, physiology and disease. This book not only provides a complete set of instructions that will allow researchers to establish the zebrafish in their laboratory. It also gives a broad overview of commonly used methods and a comprehensive collection of protocols describing the most powerful techniques.

Author : Gong Zhiyuan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814482854
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fish Development and Genetics written by Gong Zhiyuan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The zebrafish is the most important fish model in developmental and genetic analyses. This book contains 19 review articles covering a broad spectrum of topics, from development to genetic tools. The contents range from early development, the role of maternal factors and gastrulation, to tissue differentiation and organogenesis, such as development of the organizer, notochord, floor plate, nervous system, somites, muscle, skeleton and endoderm. The genetic tools cover morpholino knock-down, transgenics, fish cloning, transposons and genome evolution. The book also includes two chapters on genome mapping and embryonic stem cells in medaka, another important model fish. Summarizing the state-of-the-art studies of the zebrafish model and focusing on the molecular aspects of development, this book is a valuable reference for students learning the basic aspects of the zebrafish model, and for researchers seeking resources in zebrafish research. Contents:The Role of Maternal Factors in Early Zebrafish Development (F Pelegri)Gastrulation in Zebrafish (F Ulrich & C-P Heisenberg)Development of the Zebrafish Organiser and Notochord (K A Thomas & D L Stemple)Formation and Functions of the Floor Plate (J Tian & K Sampath)Form and Function in the Zebrafish Nervous System (M Hendricks & S Jesuthasan)Development of the Primary Nervous System of the Zebrafish Embryo (U Strähle & V Korzh)Making Scents: Development and Function of the Olfactory Sensory System (K E Whitlock)Somites Segmentation: A View from Fish (H Takeda & Y Saga)Vertebrate Somite Development, Notch Signaling and Others (Y-J Jiang)Molecular Regulation of Fish Muscle Development and Growth (S J Du)Skeletogenesis in Zebrafish Danio rerio: Evolutionary and Developmental Aspects (S Fisher & P M Mabee)Endoderm Formation in Zebrafish (N B David et al.)Gene 'Knockdown' Approaches Using Unconventional Antisense Oligonucleotides (E Chen et al.)Transgenic Fish for Developmental Biology Studies (Z-Y Gong et al.)Cloning the Zebrafish (B Ju et al.)Applications of Transponsable Elements in Fish for Transgenesis and Functional Genomics (P B Hacketts et al.)Evolution of the Zebrafish Genome (J H Postlethwait)Medaka Genome Mappling for Functional Genomics (H Mitani et al.)Medaka Embryonic Stem Cells (Y-H Hong & M Schartl) Readership: Upper level undergraduates, graduate students, academics and researchers in cell & molecular biology, fish & marine biology and genetics. Keywords:Zebrafish;Medaka;Embrynonic Development;Axial Structures;Neurogenesis;Somites;Transgenics;GenomeKey Features:Contributed by active researchers working in the field of developmental biology of the zebrafish and medakaCovers essentially all major topics from early development to organogenesis as well as several most important genetic toolsRepresents most updated reviews in selected areas of the rapidly developing field

Author : Shigetada Nakanishi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9784431998587
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Systems Biology written by Shigetada Nakanishi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological signaling pathways dynamically interact with one another to form complex information networks intracellularly, intercellularly, and eventually at the level of the organism. Biology and medicine have conventionally focused on identification and characterization of functional elements in biological signaling pathways. Recently, research in this field has pursued a new approach, systems biology, to understand the dynamics, complexity, and physiological functions of the biological signaling networks. Instead of reductionistic analyses or large-scale studies of biomolecules piece by piece, systems biology emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary methods and analysis of the regulation and operation of information networks at the systems level. The contributors to this book are leading researchers in the rising field of systems biology. Readers will find not only the most recent advances in research, but also the latest information about interdisciplinary methods and related topics.

Author : P. Michael Conn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1597452858
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sourcebook of Models for Biomedical Research written by P. Michael Conn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of systems represented in this volume is a unique effort to reflect the diversity and utility of models used in biomedicine. That utility is based on the consideration that observations made in particular organisms will provide insight into the workings of other, more complex systems. This volume is therefore a comprehensive and extensive collection of these important medical parallels.