The Neural Crest (Second Edition) (Developmental and Cell Biology Series) - Hardcover

Le Douarin, Nicole; Kalcheim, Chaya

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521620104 ISBN 13: 9780521620109

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This fully revised edition of The Neural Crest contains the most current information about this unique structure that has a transient existence in early embryonic life. The ontogeny of the neural crest embodies the most important issues in developmental biology, as the neural crest is considered to have played a crucial role in evolution of the vertebrate phylum. This revised edition includes new data that analyze neural crest ontogeny in murine and zebrafish embryos. Additional features include coverage of advances in our understanding of neural crest cell subpopulation markers, cell lineage analysis, and the introduction of molecular biology to neural crest research. Like its predecessor, this volume is essential reading for students and researchers in developmental biology, cell biology, and neuroscience.

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Book Description

This fully revised edition of the Neural Crest contains the most current information about the neural crest, a structure unique to the vertebrate embryo which has only a transient existence in early embryonic life. The ontogeny of the neural crest embodies the most important issues in developmental biology, as the neural crest is considered to have played a crucial role in evolution of the vertebrate phylum. New data analyze neural crest ontogeny in murine and zebrafish embryos, recent advances in our understanding of markers of neural crest cell subpopulations, and cell lineage analysis.

Review

"The Neural Crest represents a summary of many years of scholarship, a great deal of which has emanated from the laboratory of Professor Le Douarin. It also lays out the evolution of ideas about the neural crest and how these ideas have changed dramatically in the previous century. It is a perspective that few investigators could have and it is a pleasure to read this historical account...Any developmental biologist will enjoy this book, because even though the neural crest is the hero(ine), the questions and the experimental approaches will be appreciated by all...we will look forward to the sequel." BioEssays

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521620104
• ISBN 13: 9780521620109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 445