Advances in Genetics
Academic Press
Published on 23. May 1990
467 pages
978-0-08-056814-0 (ISBN)
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John G. Scandalios | T.R.F. Wright
Advances in Genetics: Genetic Regulatory Hierarchies in Development v. 27
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04/1990
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- Front Cover
- Genetic Regulatory Hierarchies in Development
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors to Volume 27
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Genetic Regulatory Hierarchy in Caulobacter Development
- I. Introduction
- II. Life Cycle of Caulobacter crescentus
- III. Structure of the Flagellum
- IV. Flagellar Genes
- V. Timing of Gene Expression
- VI. Regulatory Hierarchy Controlling Flagellar Biogenesis
- VII. Physical Structure, Timing of Gene Expression, and the Regulatory Hierarchy
- VIII. Hierarchies in Other Bacterial Developmental Systems
- IX. Components of Regulatory Hierarchies
- References
- Chapter 2. Combinatorial Associations of Regulatory Proteins and the Control of Cell Type in Yeast
- I. Introduction
- II. Yeast Cell Types and the Mating Process
- III. Control of Cell Type
- IV. Molecular Basis of Transcriptional Control of Cell-Type-Specific Genes
- V. Prospectives and Summary
- References
- Chapter 3. Genetic Control of Cell Type and Pattern Formation in Caenorhabditis elegans
- I. Introduction
- II. Molecular Genetics of Development
- III. Vulval Development
- IV. Other Pathways of Cell-Type Specification
- V. Genetic Control of Cell Lineage
- VI. Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4. The Regulatory Hierarchy Controlling Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation in Caenorhabditis elegans
- I. Introduction
- II. Sexual Dimorphism in Caenorhabditis elegans
- III. The Primary Sex Determination Signal: The X/A Ratio
- IV. Genes That Control Sex Determination but Not Dosage Compensation
- V. A Pathway for Sex Determination in Somatic Tissues: Genetic and Molecular Epistasis among the Autosomal Sex-Determining Genes
- VI. Germ Line Sex Determination
- VII. In Pursuit of Downstream Differentiation Functions
- VIII. X-Chromosome Dosage Compensation
- IX. A Pathway for the Coordinate Control of Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation
- X. How Many Genes Are There?
- XI. The X/A Ratio Revisited
- XII. The Roles of Autonomy, Nonautonomy, and Maternal Influence in the Choice of Sexual Fate
- XIII. Determination and Differentiation
- XIV. Concluding Remarks
- References
- Chapter 5. Genetic Control of Sex Determination in Drosophila
- I. Introduction
- II. Sex Determination in the Soma: From Sex-lethal to double-sex
- III. From the Primary Signal to Sex-lethal
- IV. From double-sex to Real Sex
- References
- Chapter 6. Role of Gap Genes in Early Drosophila Development
- I. Introduction
- II. Gap Genes: Mutant Phenotypes, Sequence Analysis, and Expression Patterns
- III. Regulation of hunchback and Krüppel Expression
- IV. Influence of Gap Genes on Pair-Rule Genes
- V. Gap Genes Act on Homeotic Selector Genes
- VI. Late Expression Patterns of hunchback and Krüppel and Their Regulation
- References
- Chapter 7. Role of the zerknüllt Gene in Dorsal-Ventral Pattern Formation in Drosophila
- I. Introduction
- II. Genetic Characterization of the zerknüllt Gene
- III. Regulation of zerknüllt Expression by Maternal Factors
- IV. Regulation of zerknüllt Expression by Zygotic Factors
- V. zerknüllt "Target" Genes
- References
- Chapter 8. Molecular and Genetic Organization of the Antennapedia Gene Complex of Drosophila rnelanogaster
- I. Introduction
- II. zerknüllt-bicoid-amalgam Interval
- III. fushi tarazu Locus
- IV. Homeotic Loci of the Antennapedia Complex
- V. Origin and Evolution of the Antennapedia Complex
- VI. Homeobox in the Antennapedia Complex
- VII. Conclusions and Prospects
- References
- Chapter 9. Establishment and Maintenance of Position-Specific Expression of the Drosophila Homeotic Selector Gene Deformed
- I. Introduction
- II. Establishment of Position-Specific Expression of Deformed
- III. Maintenance of Position-Specific Expression of Deformed
- References
- Chapter 10. Mechanisms of a Cellular Decision during Embryonic Development of Drosophila melanogaster: Epidermogenesis or Neurogenesis
- I. Introduction
- II. Cellular Aspects of Neurogenesis
- III. Genetic and Molecular Aspects of Neurogenesis
- IV. Conclusions and Prospects
- References
- Index
