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Brain Development in Drosophila melanogaster (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
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Brain Development in Drosophila melanogaster (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 628
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The central nervous system (CNS) represents the organ with the
highest struc- tural and functional complexity. Accordingly,
uncovering the mechanisms leading to cell diversity, patterning and
connectivity in the CNS is one ofthe major chal- lenges in
developmental biology. The developing CNS of the fruitfly
Drosophila melanogaster is an ideal model system to study these
processes. Several principle questions regarding neurogenesis (like
stem cell formation, cell fate specification, axonal pathfinding)
have been addressedinDrosophilaby focusing on the relatively simply
structuredtruncal partsofthe nervous system. However,
informationprocess- ing (e. g. , vision, olfaction), behavior,
learning and memory require highly special- ized structures, which
are located in the brain. Owing to much higher complexity and
hidden segmental organisation, our understandingofbrain development
is still quite rudimentary. Considerable advances have been made
recently in bringing the resolution ofbrain structures to the level
ofindividual cells and their lineages, which significantly
facilitates investigations into the mechanisms controlling brain
development. This book provides an overview of some major facets of
recent research on Drosophila brain development. The individual
chapters were written by experts in each field. V. Hartenstein et
al survey the generic cell types that make up the developing brain
and describe themorphogenesisofneural lineages and theirrelation-
ship to neuropil compartments in the larval brain. Recent findings
on anteroposterior regionalization and on dorsoventral patterning
in the embryonic brain are reviewed in the chapters by R.
Lichtneckert and H. Reichert and by R. Urbach and G. Technau,
respectively. Both processes show striking parallels
betweenDrosophila and mouse.
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