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Academic & Professional Books  Organismal to Molecular Biology  Animals: Vertebrate Zoology

The Neural Crest and Neural Crest Cells in Vertebrate Development and Evolution

By: BK Hall
575 pages, 149 illustrations, 16 in colour
Publisher: Springer Nature
The Neural Crest and Neural Crest Cells in Vertebrate Development and Evolution
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The evolution of the neural crest sheds light on many of the oldest unanswered questions in developmental biology, including the role of germ layers in early embryogenesis, the development of the nervous system, how the vertebrate head arose developmentally and evolutionarily, and how growth factors and Hox genes direct cell differentiation and embryonic patterning. In this new edition of his essential work, The Neural Crest in Development and Evolution, Brian Hall has provided an up-to-date technically and intellectually rigorous synthesis of knowledge of all aspects of the neural crest and of neural crest cells (NCCs). These ten chapters are organized into three parts: (I) The discovery, and developmental and evolutionary origins of the neural crest; (II) cellular and tissue derivatives of the neural crest; (III) and tumors and birth defects arising from abnormal NCCs.

The genetic and cellular bases for the identification of NCCs as early as during gastrulation, for induction of the neural crest, NCC delamination, migration and differentiation - understanding of all of which has increased enormously over the past decade - are discussed in depth in Part I. The evolutionary origin(s) of the neural crest is examined through an analysis of fossils, and of cell types, genes and gene networks in extant cephalochordates (amphioxus) and in ascidians.

Four chapters grouped as Part II examine all aspects of neural crest-derived pigment cells, neurons, skeletal, cardiac and tooth-forming cells, with emphasis on how and when subpopulations of NCCs are specified and how their differentiation is controlled. The two chapters in Part III revisit NCC development in the context of tumors (neurocristopathies) and birth defects, with emphasis on genetic pathways, regulation of cell populations, and whether NCCs can be considered to be stem cells.

Contents

Part I Discovery and Origins: Discovery of the Neural Crest.- Embryological Origins.- Evolutionary Origins.- Part II Derivatives and Diversity: Skeletal and Dental Derivatives.- Neural Derivatives.- Endocrine Derivatives.- Cardiac Derivatives.- Part III Mechanisms of Development of Neural Crest Cells: Specification of the Neural Crest.- Neural Crest Cells as Stem Cells.- Migration of Neural Crest Cells.- Interaction of Neural Crest Cells with Other Cell Types.- Differentiation of Neural Crest Cells.- Morphogenesis and Patterning of and by Neural Crest Cells.- Part IV Neurocristopathies, Syndromes and Birth Defects: Neurocristopathies.- Birth Defects (Gene Mutations).- Notes.- References.- Index.

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Biography

Dr. Brian K. Hall has devoted much of his career to the study of the evolution and development of neural crest-derived skeletal tissues. He is a University Research Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a foreign fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

By: BK Hall
575 pages, 149 illustrations, 16 in colour
Publisher: Springer Nature
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From the reviews of the second edition: "The new edition of 'The Neural Crest' -- the first edition was published in 1999 -- again tries to consider all aspects of neural crest cells. ! At the end, there is an overwhelming list of references ! and the obligatory index. ! There is plenty for both researchers and scientists ! in this well-organized and clearly written book." (Hartmut Greven, Bulletin of Fish Biology, Vol. 11 (1/2), December, 2009)

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