Invertebrate and vertebrate eye development /

• Other Authors: Cagan, Ross Leigh (Editor), Reh, Thomas A. (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Academic, 2010.
• Series: Current topics in developmental biology ; v. 93.
• Subjects: Eye.; Developmental biology.; Eye > growth & development.; Intervertebrates.; Vertebrates.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.; Electronic books.

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 th...

Table of Contents:

• 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.