Instructor: Marc Halfon
E-mail: mshalfon@buffalo.edu
Topic: Dorsal-Ventral development concluded; Pattern Formation summary
This week we'll review what we've learned about pattern formation and put some this knowledge together to gain insight into how an animal is constructed. We'll conclude with a special musical summation.
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Assigned reading:
You can download the Figures/Tables template here.
Thursday: Finish discussion of papers, wrap-up of fly development ("how to build a completely patterned organism"), musical finale.
Recommended reading:
Carroll, S. B., Grenier, J. K., and Weatherbee, S. D. (2005). From DNA to Diversity. Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design, 2nd edn (Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing).
A great little book on Development and Evolution of Development
Slides and lecture notes: will be posted here following class. Some additional notes on D-V patterning can be found here.
Web resources: