Current Topics in Developmental Biology, Volume 143, the latest release in this acclaimed series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting new sections on Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells, Biomechanics of Amphibian Morphogenesis, Planar cell polarity during neural tube closure, Left-right asymmetry research in Xenopus: Questions solved and new frontiers, Xenopus neural crest and its relevance to human disease, Endoderm organogenesis, From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs, Evo-devo lessons from the analysis of Xenopus genomes, Transcriptional regulation during zygotic genome activation, and much more.

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