Brain development in Drosophila melanogaster
By: edited by Gerhard M. Technau.
Contributors: Technau, Gerhard M.
Publisher: Landes Bioscience; Springer Science+Business Media
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Austin, Tex; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780387782607
Subjects: Drosophila melanogaster -- Development; Brain -- Growth; Developmental neurobiology; Brain -- embryology; Drosophila melanogaster -- growth & development
Description: The central nervous system (CNS) represents the organ with the highest structural and functional complexity. Accordingly, uncovering the mechanisms leading to cell diversity, patterning and connectivity in the CNS is one of the major challenges 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 addressed in Drosophila by focusing on the relatively simply structured truncal parts of the nervous system. However, information processing (e.g., vision, olfaction), behavior, learning and memory require highly specialized structures, which are located in the brain. Owing to much higher complexity and hidden segmental organisation our understanding of brain development is still quite rudimentary. Considerable advances have been made recently in bringing the resolution o.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The development of the Drosophila larval brain; title: Anteroposterior regionalization of the brain: genetic and comparative aspects; title: Dorsoventral patterning of the brain: a comparative approach; title: Dissection of the embryonic brain using photoactivated gene expression; title: Design of the larval chemosensory system; title: Development of the Drosophila olfactory system; title: The olfactory sensory map in drosophila; title: Optic lobe development; title: Clonal unit architecture of the adult fly brain.