Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Retinal determination : the beginning of eye development / Justin P. Kumar -- Eye field specification in xenopus laevis / Michael E. Zuber -- Eye morphogenesis and patterning of the optic vesicle / Sabine Fuhrmann -- Two themes on the assembly of the drosophila eye / Sujin Bao -- Building a fly eye : terminal differentiation events of the retina, corneal lens, and pigmented epithelia / Mark Charlton-Perkins and Tiffany A. Cook -- Retinal progenitor cells, differentiation, and barrierts to cell cycle reentry / Denise M. Davis and Michael A. Dyer -- Planar cell polarity signaling in the drosophila eye / Andreas Jenny -- Milestones and mechanisms for generating specific synaptic connections between the eyes and the brain / Nicko J. Josten and Andrew D. Huberman.

Vision is our primary sensory modality and we are naturally curious as to how the visual system assembles. The visual system is in many ways remarkably simple, a repeating assemblage of neurons and support cells that parse the visual field through precision and redundancy. Through this simplicity the eye has often led the way in our exploration of how an organ is assembled. Eye development has therefore long been a favorite for exploring mechanisms of cell fate choice, patterning and cell signaling. This volume, which is part of the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights the exceptional advances over the past twenty years Contributions from researchers who are active in identifying new paradigms to explore Review of our current state of knowledge Chapters written by authors with a new generation approach that takes a more systems approach to identifying factors and better defines cell subtypes.