© 1993 • 1,564 pp. (2-volume set), illus., indexes
Paperback • $256.00 • ISBN  978-087969899-7

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster offers the most powerful means of studying embryonic development in eukaryotes. New information from many different organ systems has accumulated rapidly in the past decade. This monograph, written by the most distinguished workers in the field, is the most authoritative and comprehensive synthesis of Drosophila developmental biology available and emphasizes the insights gained by molecular and genetic analysis. In two volumes, it is a lavishly illustrated, elegantly designed reference work illustrating principles of genetic regulation of embryogenesis that may apply to other eukaryotes.

VOLUME I

1. Developmental Genetics of Oogenesis

Allan C. Spradling

2. Spermatogenesis

Margaret T. Fuller

3. Mitosis and Morphogenesis in the Drosophila Embryo: Point and Counterpoint

Victoria E. Foe, Garrett M. Odell, and Bruce A. Edgar

4. Maternal Control of Anterior Development in the Drosophila Embryo

Wolfgang Driever

5. Pole Plasm and the Posterior Group Genes

Daniel St. Johnston

6. The Terminal System of Axis Determination in the Drosophila Embryo

Frank Sprenger and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

7. Maternal Control of Dorsal-Ventral Polarity and Pattern in the Embryo

Rebecca Chasan and Kathryn V. Anderson

8. Gastrulation in Drosophila: Cellular Mechanisms of Morphogenetic Movements

Michael Costa, Dari Sweeton, and Eric Wieschaus

9. Blastoderm Segmentation

Michael J. Pankratz and Herbert Jäckle

10. Development and Patterning of the Larval Epidermis of Drosophila

Alfonso Martinez Arias

11. Development of the Drosophila Tracheal System

Gerard Manning and Mark A. Krasnow

12. The Terminal Regions of the Body Pattern

Gerd Jürgens and Volker Hartenstein

VOLUME II

13. Imaginal Disc Development

Stephen M. Cohen

14. The Metamorphic Development of the Adult Epidermis

Dianne Fristrom and James W. Fristrom

15. Hormones and Drosophila Development

Lynn M. Riddiford

16. The Alimentary Canal

Helen Skaer

17. The Mesoderm and Its Derivatives

Michael Bate

18. Early Neurogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster

José A. Campos-Ortega

19. Embryonic Development of the Drosophila Central Nervous System

Corey S. Goodman and Chris Q. Doe

20. The Peripheral Nervous System

Yuh Nung Jan and Lily Yeh Jan

21. Formation of the Adult Nervous System

James W. Truman, Barbara J. Taylor, and Timothy A. Awad

22. Pattern Formation in the Drosophila Retina

Tanya Wolff and Donald F. Ready

23. Genetic Dissection of Eye Development in Drosophila

Barry Dickson and Ernst Hafen

24. The Development of the Optic Lobe

Ian A. Meinertzhagen and Thomas E. Hanson

Epilogue

Michael Ashburner

Gene Index

Subject Index