Amphibian Models of Development and Disease, Volume 145

1. Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells
Brian Mitchell
2. Biomechanics of Amphibian Morphogenesis
David Shook
3. Planar cell polarity during neural tube closure
Sergei Sokol
4. Xenopus neural crest and its relevance to human disease
Anne H. Monsoro-Burq
5. Endoderm organogenesis
Aaron Zorn
6. From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs
Eugenia M. del Pino
7. Evo-devo lessons from the analysis of Xenopus genomes
Masanori Taira
8. Transcriptional regulation during zygotic genome activation
Ken W.Y. Cho
9. Proteomics and metabolomics for cell lineage analysis in frog embryos
Peter Nemes
10. Salamanders: champions of tissue regeneration and its relevance to human diseases
Karen Echeverri
11. Xenopus for the discovery of new genes relevant to human disease
Mustafa Khokha

Amphibian Models of Development and Disease, Volume 145 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field written by an international board of experts. New chapters in this release include Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells, Biomechanics of Amphibian Morphogenesis, Planar cell polarity during neural tube closure, Xenopus neural crest and its relevance to human disease, Endoderm organogenesis, From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs, Evo-devo lessons from the analysis of Xenopus genomes, Transcriptional regulation during zygotic genome activation, Proteomics and metabolomics for cell lineage analysis in frog embryos, and more.

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• Presents the latest release in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series
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