Landmarks in Developmental Biology, 1883-1924

by Sander, Klaus; Counce, S. J.; Fassler, P. E.; Fischer, John L.; Nubler-Jung, K.; Arendt, D.

• ISBN13: 9783540614760
• ISBN10: 3540614761
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Developmental biology took shape between 1880 and the 1920s Basic concepts like the developmental role of chromosomes and the germ plasm (today's genome), self differentiation, embryonic regulation and induction, gradients and organizers hail from that period; indeed, the discipline was defined as a whole by the programmatic writings of Wilhelm Roux as early as 1889. The present essays cover the period up to the Nobel prize-winning work of Hans Spemann and Hilde Mangold. They were originally published in Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology, from Vol. 200 onward to the journal's centennial issues in 1995/96. The essays aim at introducing current adepts of developmental biology to observations and experiments that have lead their predecessors towards basic concepts still influential today.

Table of Contents

Klaus Sander
Wilhelm Roux and his programme for developmental biology Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1991) 200: 1 - 3	1	(3)
Klaus Sander
Wilhelm Roux's treatise on "qualitative" mitoses - a "classic" by either definition Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1991) 200: 61 - 63	4	(3)
Klaus Sander
Wilhelm Roux on embryonic axes, sperm entry and the grey crescent Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1991) 200: 117 - 119	7	(3)
Klaus Sander
When seeing is believing: Wilhelm Roux's misconceived fate map Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1991) 200: 177 - 179	10	(3)
Klaus Sander
"Mosaic work" and "assimilating effects" in embryogenesis: Wilhelm Roux's conclusions after disabling frog blastomeres Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1991) 200: 237 - 239	13	(3)
Klaus Sander
Wilhelm Roux and the rest: Developmental theories 1885 - 1895 Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1991) 200: 297 - 299	16	(3)
Jean-Louis Fischer
Laurent Chabry (1855-1893) and the "Age d'or" of biology Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1992) 201: 61 - 64	19	(4)
Jean-Louis Fischer
The embryological oeuvre of Laurent Chabry Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1992) 201: 125 - 127	23	(3)
Klaus Sander
Jean-Louis Fischer
How to dart ascidian blastomeres: The embryological micro-tools of Laurent Chabry (1855 - 1893) Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1992) 201: 191 - 193	26	(3)
Klaus Sander
Shaking a concept: Hans Driesch and the varied fates of sea urchin blastomeres Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1992) 201: 265 - 267	29	(3)
Klaus Sander
Hans Driesch the critical mechanist: "Analytische Theorie der organischen Entwicklung" Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1992) 201: 331 - 333	32	(3)
Klaus Sander
Hans Driesch's "philosophy really ab ovo", or why to be a vitalist Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1992) 202: 1 - 3	35	(3)
Klaus Sander
Entelechy and the ontogenetic machine-work and views of Hans Driesch from 1895 to 1910 Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1993) 202: 67 - 69	38	(3)
Klaus Sander
Theodor Boveri on cytoplasmic organization in the sea urchin egg Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1993) 202: 129 - 131	41	(3)
Klaus Sander
Aneuploidy disrupts embryogenesis: Theodor Boveri's analysis of sea urchin dispermy Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1993) 202: 247 - 249	44	(3)
Klaus Sander
Reflections on method: Theodor Boveri's evaluation of "natural experiments" and their table-top simulation Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1993) 202: 313 - 315	47	(3)
Klaus Sander
Lessons from a queen's lost offspring - Theodor Boveri on honeybee gynanders and other genetic mosaics Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1993) 203: 121 - 123	50	(3)
Klaus Sander
True alternatives: Boveri and Morgan arguing about the origins of honeybee gynanders Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1994) 203: 175 - 177	53	(3)
Klaus Sander
Of gradients and genes: Developmental concepts of Theodor Boveri and his students Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1994) 203: 295 - 297	56	(3)
Jean-Louis Fischer
Yves Delage (1854 - 1920) and the ideology behind his research on fecondation Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1995) 204: 219 - 222	59	(4)
Jean-Louis Fischer
Eugene Bataillon (1864 - 1953) and traumatic parthogenesis Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1995) 204: 281 - 283	63	(3)
Peter E. Fassler
Klaus Sander
Hilde Mangold (1898 - 1924) and Spemann's organizer: achievement and tragedy Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1996) 205: 323 - 332	66	(10)
Klaus Sander
An American in Paris and the origins of the stereomicroscope Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1994) 202: 235 - 242	76	(8)
K. Nubler-Jung
D. Arendt
Is ventral in insects dorsal in vertebrates? Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1994) 203: 357 - 366	84	(11)
S. J. Counce
Archives for Developmental Mechanics, W. Roux, Editor (1894 - 1924) Roux's Arch Dev Biol (1994) 204: 79 - 92	95