Dear colleagues:

I have been editing a special issue of the Int. J. Dev. Biol. devoted to

"The developmental genetics of Drosophila" and dedicated to Antonio
Garcia-Bellido, and expected to come out in April. The issue opens with
a poem of Pam Lewis and follows with a unique blend of scholarly
reviews, challenging essays and historical sketches. I append the table
of contents to give you an idea of what it will look like. I believe
this issue may be of interest to some of you who do not have an easy
access to the Journal, and wish to inform you that it can be bought
separately; for inquiries, please contact Ms Olga Santamaria, Editorial
office (at gcpar...@lg.ehu.es, or fax number +34.4.464.89.66) or consult
the IJDB web site http://www.lg.ehu.es/ijdb

Yours,
Alain Ghysen

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Table of contents.

Volcano in the lab
        Pam Lewis

Changing paradigms - a dialogue with Antonio Garcia-Bellido
       Enrique Cerda-Olmedo

1. Clonal analysis and the genetics of somatic cells
Developmental cell lineage
       Gunther Stent
Creating mosaics in Drosophila
       Norbert Perrimon
Genetic requirements of epidermal and female germ line cells
       Janos Szabad
Probing patterns of gene expression in Drosophila epithelial cells
       Trudi Schuepbach and Eric Wieschaus
Cell number control and timing in animal development: the
oligodendrocyte cell
lineage
       Martin Raff, Beatrice Durand, and Fen-Biao Gao

2. The genetics of cell determination
The genetics of the Drosophila achaete-scute gene complex: an historical

appraisal
       Jose Campos-Ortega
The achaete-scute complex as an integrating device
       Juan Modolell and Sonsoles Campuzano
The bHLH genes in neural development
       Christine Dambly-Chaudiere and Michel Vervoort
Muscle patterning and specification in Drosophila.
       Mar Ruiz-Gomez
Molecular recapitulation: the growth of the vertebrate retina
       Bill Harris

3. From gene to pattern
From pattern to gene, from gene to pattern
       Sean Carroll
Compartment boundaries: where, why and how
       Jean-Paul Vincent
Growth and patterning from the engrailed interface
       Alicia Hidalgo
Notch, wingless and the specification of cell fates in Drosophila
       Alfonso Martinez-Arias
Positioning and differentiation of veins in the Drosophila wing
       Jose de Celis
Proximo-distal development in the legs of Drosophila
       Juan Pablo Couso and Sarah A. Bishop

4. The cell biology of development
Cell proliferation in the attainment of constant sizes and shapes:
the Entelechia model
       Antonio C. Garcia-Bellido and Antonio Garcia-Bellido
Cellular polarity, mitotic synchrony and axes of symmetry during growth.

Where does the information come from?
       David Gubb
Regulatory control of signal transduction during morphogenesis in
Drosophila
       Enrique Martin-Blanco
Asymmetry and cell fate in the embryonic Drosophila CNS
       Sal Fuerstenberg, Julie Broadus and Chris Doe
Segmentation of the vertebrate hindbrain: a time-lapse analysis
       Paul Kulesa and Scott Fraser

5. Homeotic selector genes
The Bithorax Complex: The first fifty years.
       Ed Lewis
From selectors to realizators
       Jacques Pradel and Rob White
trithorax and the regulation of homoeotic gene expression in Drosophila:
a historical perspective
       Phil Ingham
Homeotic proboscipedia cell identity functions respond to cell
signalling
pathways along the proximo-distal axis.
       Muriel Boube, Laurent Seroude and David Cribbs
Segmentation and specification in the branchial region of the head:
the role of the Hox selector genes.
       Filippo Rijli, Anthony Galavas and Pierre Chambon

6. Hox genes and evolution
Hox genes, homeosis and the evolution of segment identity: no need for
hopeless
monsters.
       Michael Akam
Implications of the spatial and temporal regulation of Hox genes on
development and evolution.
       Jaime Castelli-Gair
Understanding the genetic basis of morphological evolution: the role of
homeotic
genes in the diversification of the arthropod bauplan
       Aleksandar Popadic, Arhat Abzhanov, Douglas Rusch and Thomas C.
Kaufman
Genesis versus epigenesis: the odd jobs of the Polycomb group of genes.
       Pedro Santamaria

7. The developmental programme
Sir Vincent Wigglesworth and the coming of age of insect development.
       John Edwards
Embryonic development as a quasi-historical process
       David Weisblat
Laws for the dynamics of regulatory networks
       Rene Thomas
Syntagms in development and evolution
       Francoise Huang
How is developmental stability sustained in the face of genetic
variation?
       Robert Whittle
Seven types of pleiotropy
       Jonathan Hodgkin
Making sense of Behaviour
       Michael Bate
Debatable issues
       Lewis Wolpert, Alain Ghysen and Antonio Garcia-Bellido

8. Antonio Garcia-Bellido and developmental genetics
Antonio Garcia-Bellido in Zuerich
       Rolf Noethiger
Antonio and Sturt: an interaction
       John Merriam
Antonio Garcia-Bellido in Caltech
       Ed Lewis
Serendipity, the principle of limited sloppines, and neural development.

       Yuh-Nung Jan and Lily Yeh Jan
The genetic logic of Antonio Garcia-Bellido
       Gabriel Dover
In defence of pure science: a tribute to Antonio Garcia-Bellido
       Fotis Kafatos
An exceptional friend
       Francois Jacob

Alain Ghysen
Lab. de Neurogenetique, cc 103
Universite de Montpellier II
place E. Bataillon
34095 Montpellier Cedex5
France
Tel. 33 467 14 4802 (office), 3253 (lab), 3928 (fax)

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