Gene Regulatory Networks

Gene Regulatory Networks, Volume 139 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Topics in this release include Mouse hindbrain GRN, Xenopus endoderm GRN – organogenesis, Vertebrate limb GRN, The notochord gene regulatory network in chordate evolution: conservation and divergence from Ciona to vertebrates, Ciona early embryo GRNs, Boolean logic models, Modeling GRN response to morphogen gradient, GRN architecture, Theory of GRN evolution, Evolution of fly segmentation GRNs, GRN evolution in echinoderms, Evolution of network specificity, and more.

Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authorsPresents the latest release in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology seriesIncludes the latest information on gene regulatory networks

1. A gene regulatory network for cell fate specification in Ciona embryos

Yutaka Satou

2. Early Xenopus gene regulatory programs, chromatin states, and the role of maternal transcription factors

Kitt D. Paraiso, Jin S. Cho, Junseok Yong and Ken W.Y. Cho

3. Dynamic and self-regulatory interactions among gene regulatory networks control vertebrate limb bud morphogenesis

Aimée Zuniga and Rolf Zeller

4. Gene regulatory networks during the development of the Drosophila visual system

Yen-Chung Chen and Claude Desplan

5. Cell fate decisions during the development of the peripheral nervous system in the vertebrate head

Alexandre Thiery, Ailin Leticia Buzzi and Andrea Streit

6. A Hox gene regulatory network for hindbrain segmentation

Hugo J. Parker and Robb E. Krumlauf

7. Logical modeling of cell fate specification—Application to T cell commitment

Elisabetta Cacace, Samuel Collombet and Denis Thieffry

8. Repressive interactions in gene regulatory networks: When you have no other choice

M. Joaquina Delás and James Briscoe

9. The function of architecture and logic in developmental gene regulatory networks

Isabelle S. Peter

10. The evolution of the gene regulatory networks patterning the Drosophila Blastoderm

Ariel D. Chipman

11. The notochord gene regulatory network in chordate evolution: Conservation and divergence from Ciona to vertebrates

Anna Di Gregorio

12. On the individuality of gene regulatory networks: How does network reuse affect subsequent evolution?

Eden McQueen and Mark Rebeiz

13. Evolutionary dynamics of gene regulation

Douglas H. Erwin