Bio 351 | Developmental Biology

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30 - 11:50
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Readings from the Literature

All papers are on the Courses Folder at files.reed.edu. Most papers are also available via the library's connection to the journals.

*Indicates that electronic version is unavailable via the library.

Date Topic Reference
Aug 30 Do genes control development? *Nijhout (1990) Bioessays 12: 441–446.
" DNA = program or data?     E. Keller (1999) J. Exp. Zool. 285: 283–290.
Sept 1 Sea urchin micromeres Ransick & Davidson (1993) Science 259: 1134–1138.
Sept 6 Ascidian juju Nishida & Sawada (2001) Nature 409: 724–729.
Sept 8 Grey crescent transplant *Curtis (1960) J. Embryol. Exp. Morph. 8: 163–173.
Sept 13 Frog juju Kageura (1997) Development 124: 1543–1551.
Sept 15 Molecular juju Lemaire et al. (1995) Cell 81: 85–94.
Sept 20 It’s not all juju *R. Keller (1981) J. Exp. Zool. 216: 81–101.
Sept 22 Juju in fish Gore et al. (2005) Nature 438: 1030–1035.
Sept 27 Annelid morphogenesis *Stent & Weisblat (1982) Sci. American, Jan. issue, pp 136–146.
Sept 29 Induction in molluscs Lambert & Nagy (2003) Developmental Biology 263: 231–241.
Oct 4 Molecular evo-devo of insects Peel (2008) Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 363: 1539–1547.
Oct 6 The rise of fall of Hox clusters Duboule (2007) Development 1342: 2549–2560.
Oct 11 Spiders aren’t flies Oda & Akiyama-Oda (2008) Development Growth Diff 50: 203–214.
Oct 13 Primitive streak in birds
Bachvarova et al. (1998) Development 125: 3521–3534.
" How the turtle got its shell Kuratani et al. (2011) Evolution and Development 13: 1–14.
Oct. 25 Regulation in mice Zernicka-Goetz (1998) Development 125: 4803–4808.
Nov. 3 Origin of teeth Soukup et al. (2008) Nature 455: 795–798.
Nov. 22 Disorders of sex development Yang et al. (2010) Urology 75: 153–160.