Nematode Models of Development and Disease

by Benjamin Podbilewicz (Editor), Sophie Jarriault (Editor)

Overview

Nematode Models of Development and Disease, Volume 144 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters surrounding Transgenerational inheritance, Oscillatory expression and function, Concepts and functions of small RNA pathways in C. elegans, Exploring the nuclear lamina in health and pathology using C. elegans, Cellular Plasticity, Morphogenesis, Tubulogenesis, Organogenesis forces, Programmed cell fusion in development and homeostasis, One template, two outcomes: how does the sex-shared nervous system generate sex-specific behaviors?, Metabolic Cellular Coordination of Gene-Environment Interactions, and much more. Other chapters cover Chemical and physical cues and micro-evolution in early embryogenesis, Innate immunity, Sex and Death, Dendrites maturation, axonal growth and extracellular glycoproteins, Autophagocytosis, Spermatogenesis, and the developmental and physiological roles of phagocytosis in Caenorhabditis elegans. - Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors - Presents the latest release in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128161784
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	05/13/2021
Series:	Current Topics in Developmental Biology , #144
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	450
File size:	33 MB
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About the Author

Benjamin Podbilewicz is at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Sophie Jarriault is at the Université de Strasbourg, France

Table of Contents

1. Can brain activity transmit transgenerationally? Eric A. Miska and Oded Rechavi2. Gene expression oscillations in C. elegans underlie a new developmental clockCharisios Tsiairis and Helge Großhans3. Concepts and functions of small RNA pathways in C. elegans Rene F. Ketting and Luisa Cochella4. Exploring the nuclear lamina in health and pathology using C. elegansChayki Charar, Sally Metsuyanim-Cohen, Yosef Gruenbaum, and Daniel Z. Bar5. On the origins and conceptual frameworks of natural plasticity—Lessons from single-cell models in C. elegansJulien Lambert, Carla Lloret-Fernández, Lucie Laplane, Richard J. Poole, and Sophie Jarriault6. Epithelial morphogenesis, tubulogenesis and forces in organogenesisDaniel D. Shaye and Martha C. Soto7. Programmed cell fusion in development and homeostasisYael Iosilevskii and Benjamin Podbilewicz8. One template, two outcomes: How does the sex-shared nervous system generate sex-specific behaviors?Yehuda Salzberg, Asaf Gat, and Meital Oren-Suissa9. The first steps in the life of a worm: Themes and variations in asymmetric division in C. elegans and other nematodesMarie Delattre and Nathan W. Goehring10. Innate immunity in C. elegansCeline N. Martineau, Natalia V. Kirienko, and Nathalie Pujol11. Sex and deathCheng Shi and Coleen T. Murphy'12. Roles of glycoconjugates in neural patterning in C. elegansHannes E. Bulow13. The developmental and physiological roles of phagocytosis in Caenorhabditis elegansPiya Ghose and Ann M. Wehman

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Edited by the best scientists in the field, this series presents the latest updates in developmental biology