Developmental Timing: Volume 105

This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers developmental timing, with contributions from an international board of authors. The chapters provide a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as the timing of developmental programs in Drosophila, temporal patterning of neural progenitors, and environmental modulation of developmental timing.

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This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers developmental timing, with contributions from an international board of authors. The chapters provide a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as the timing of developmental programs in Drosophila, temporal patterning of neural progenitors, and environmental modulation of developmental timing.

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Covers developmental timing, with contributions from an international board of authors. In this book, the chapters provide a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as the timing of developmental programs in Drosophila, temporal patterning of neural progenitors, and environmental modulation of developmental timing.

Inhalt

1. Keeping puberty on time: Novel signals and mechanisms involved

2. MicroRNAs and Drosophila developmental transitions

3. The timing of developmental programs in Drosophila

4. Mechanisms of developmental timing in the control of size and allometry

5. Vegetative maturation in flowering plants

6. Temporal patterning of neural progenitors

7. Unliganded thyroid hormone receptor regulates metamorphic timing via the recruitment of histone deacetylase complexes

8. Environmental modulation of developmental timing

9. Developmental timekeeping in C. Elegans

10. Steroidal control of developmental timing

11. Circannual transitions in gene expression: lessons from a hibernating mammal