"This volume will make a useful contribution to any life science research library." --Ryan Kerney, The Quarterly Review of Biology.
Section I From early development to morphogenesis and tissue patterning 1. Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells Caitlin Collins, Rosa Ventrella, and Brian J. Mitchell 2. Xenopus neural tube closure: A vertebrate model linking planar cell polarity to actomyosin contractions Miho Matsuda and Sergei Y. Sokol 3. Modeling endoderm development and disease in Xenopus Nicole A. Edwards and Aaron M. Zorn 4. From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs Eugenia M. del Pino Section II Systems biology approaches in amphibians 5. LIM homeodomain proteins and associated partners: Then and now Yuuri Yasuoka and Masanori Taira 6. Control of zygotic genome activation in Xenopus Ira L. Blitz and Ken W.Y. Cho 7. Mass spectrometry based proteomics for developmental neurobiology in the amphibian Xenopus laevis Aparna B. Baxi, Leena R. Pade, and Peter Nemes Section III Amphibian models for regeneration and disease 8. Salamanders: The molecular basis of tissue regeneration and its relevance to human disease Claudia Marcela Arenas Gómez and Karen Echeverri 9. Xenopus as a platform for discovery of genes relevant to human disease Valentyna Kostiuk and Mustafa K. Khokha 10. Xenopus, an emerging model for studying pathologies of the neural crest Laura Medina-Cuadra and Anne H. Monsoro-Burq
Sergei Sokol is at Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.