Volume 101: Planar Cell Polarity During Development, 1st Edition

Key Features

• Covers the area of planar cell polarity
• International board of authors
• 12 chapters provide a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as planar cell polarity in Zebrafish, the role of disheveled in planar cell polarity regulation, and planar cell polarity in axon path finding

Description

This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers the area of Planar Cell Polarity with contributions from an international board of authors. The 12 chapters provide a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as PCP in Zebra fish, the role of Dishevelled in PCP regulation, and PCP in axon pathfinding.

Readership

Researchers in cell, developmental, and molecular biology; genetics

Planar Cell Polarity During Development, 1st Edition

1. The Frizzled/Stan Pathway and Planar Cell Polarity in the Drosophila Wing

Paul N. Adler

2. Asymmetric Protein Localization in Planar Cell Polarity

Ying Peng and Jeffrey D. Axelrod

3. Control of Cell Polarity and Asymmetric Division in C. Elegans

Hitoshi Sawa

4. Planar Cell Polarity in Co-Ordinated and Directed Movements

Masazumi Tada and Masatake Kai

5. Planar Cell Polarity in the Inner Ear

Helen May-Simera and Matthew W. Kelley

6. Does Planar Cell Polarity Signaling Steer Growth Cones?

Yimin Zou

7. Celsr1-3 Cadherins in PCP and Brain Development

Camille Boutin, André M. Goffinet and Fadel Tissir

8. The Kidney and Planar Cell Polarity

Thomas J. Carroll and Jing Yu

9. Dishevelled: In Vivo Roles of a Multifunctional Gene Family During Development

Anthony Wynshaw-Boris

10. An Expanding Role of Vangl Proteins in Embryonic Development

Elena Torban, Alexandra Iliescu and Philippe Gros

11. Wnt Regulation of Planar Cell Polarity (PCP)

Bo Gao