© 2010 • 624 pp., illus. (102 b/w), appendices, index
Trim size: 8-1/2” x 10-7/8”
Paperback • $89 • ISBN  978-087969865-2

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This second volume of the groundbreaking Emerging Model Organisms series expands the collection of species presented in the first volume. Leading experts provide 18 new chapters on emerging model systems, ranging from honeybee, ant, and beetle to Ciona and amphioxus; squid and salamander to yam, Paramecium, and wallaby. Like the first volume, each chapter presents a new organism and provides a detailed explanation of why it is useful for laboratory research, along with information on husbandry, genetics and genomics, pointers toward further resources, and a set of basic laboratory protocols for working with that organism. Emerging Model Organisms serves as a practical guidebook for finding just the right organism to address specific research needs.

Review of Volume 1:
“The first volume of Emerging Model Organisms illustrates the bewildering variety of natural histories and rapidly advancing techniques that have been developed to work with a wide spectrum of organisms. If Darwin were around now, he would have been the first to happily make use of this manual—and would be impatiently awaiting the forthcoming tome, describing the emergence of honeybees, squids, ascidians, rabbits, ants...and many more.” —Nature Cell Biology

1. Paramecium tetraurelia

The Renaissance of an Early Unicellular Model

J. Beisson, M. Bétermier, M.-H. Bré, J. Cohen, S. Duharcourt, L. Duret, C. Kung, S. Malinsky, E. Meyer, J.R. Preer Jr., and L. Sperling

2. Maize (Zea mays)

A Model Organism for Basic and Applied Research in Plant Biology

J. Strable and M.J. Scanlon

3. The “Mother of Thousands” (Kalanchoë daigremontiana)

A Plant Model for Asexual Reproduction and CAM Studies

H. Garcês and N. Sinha

4. True Yams (Dioscorea)

A Biological and Evolutionary Link between Eudicots and Grasses

H.D. Mignouna, M.M. Abang, R. Asiedu, and R. Geeta

5. The Starlet Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis

An Anthozoan Model Organism for Studies in Comparative Genomics and Functional Evolutionary Developmental Biology

G. Genikhovich and U. Technau

6. The Hawaiian Bobtail Squid (Euprymna scolopes)

A Model to Study the Molecular Basis of Eukaryote–Prokaryote Mutualism and the Development and Evolution of Morphological Novelties in Cephalopods

P.N. Lee, M.J. McFall-Ngai, P. Callaerts, and H. Gert de Couet

7. Ants (Formicidae)

Models for Social Complexity

C.R. Smith, A. Dolezal, D. Eliyahu, C. Tate Holbrook, and J. Gadau

8. The Honeybee Apis mellifera

P.K. Dearden, E.J. Duncan, and M.J. Wilson

9. Morphology and Husbandry of the Large Milkweed Bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus

P. Liu and T.C. Kaufman

10. The Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia

An Emerging Model System with Haploid Male Genetics

J.H. Werren and D.W. Loehlin

11. The Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera)

A Model for Studies of Development and Pest Biology

S.J. Brown, T.D. Shippy, S. Miller, R. Bolognesi, R.W. Beeman, M.D. Lorenzen, G. Bucher, E.A. Wimmer, and M. Klingler

12. Cephalochordates (Amphioxus or Lancelets)

A Model for Understanding the Evolution of Chordate Characters

J.K. Sky Yu and L.Z. Holland

13. The Sea Squirt Ciona intestinalis

L. Christiaen, E. Wagner, W. Shi, and M. Levine

14. Ambystoma mexicanum, the Axolotl

A Versatile Amphibian Model for Regeneration, Development, and Evolution Studies

S.R. Voss, H.H. Epperlein, and E.M. Tanaka

15. The Western Clawed Frog (Xenopus tropicalis)

An Emerging Vertebrate Model for Developmental Genetics and Environmental Toxicology

C. Showell and F.L. Conlon

16. The Painted Turtle, Chrysemys picta

A Model System for Vertebrate Evolution, Ecology, and Human Health

N. Valenzuela

17. The Tammar Wallaby, Macropus eugenii

A Model Kangaroo for the Study of Developmental and Reproductive Biology

D. Hickford, S. Frankenberg, and M.B. Renfree

18. The Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

A Model for Mammalian Reproduction and Early Embryology

B. Püschel, N. Daniel, E. Bitzer, M. Blum, J.-P. Renard, and C. Viebahn

Cautions Appendix

Recipes Appendix

Index