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Landmarks in developmental biology 1883–1924

historical essays from Roux's archives

Klaus Sander

Abstract

Developmental biology took shape between 1880 and the 1920`s Basic concepts like the developmental role of chromosomes and the germ plasm (today`s genome), self differentiation, embryonic regulation and induction, gradients and organizers hail from that period; indeed, the discipline was defined as a whole by the programmatic writings of Wilhelm Roux as early as 1889. The present essays cover the period up to the Nobel prize-winning work of Hans Spemann and Hilde Mangold. They were originally published in Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology, from Vol. 200 onward to the journal's centennial issues in 1995/96. The essays aim at introducing current adepts of developmental biology to observations and experiments that have lead their predecessors towards basic concepts still influential today.

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How to dart ascidian blastomeres

the embryological micro-tools of Laurent Chabry (1855–1893)

Klaus SanderJean-Louis Fischer

pp.26-28

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_9
Shaking a concept

Hans Driesch and the varied fates of sea urchin blastomeres

Klaus Sander

pp.29-31

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_10
Hans Driesch the critical mechanist

"Analytische Theorie der organischen Entwicklung"

Klaus Sander

pp.32-34

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_11
Entelechy and the ontogenetic machine

work and views of Hans Driesch from 1895 to 1910

Klaus Sander

pp.38-40

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_13
Aneuploidy disrupts embryogenesis

Theodor Boveri's analysis of sea urchin dispermy

Klaus Sander

pp.44-46

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_15
Reflections on method

Theodor Boveri's evaluation of "natural experiments" and their table-top simulation

Klaus Sander

pp.47-49

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_16
Lessons from a queen's lost offspring

Theodor Boveri on honeybee gynanders and other genetic mosaics

Klaus Sander

pp.50-52

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_17
True alternatives

Boveri and Morgan arguing about the origins of honeybee gynanders

Klaus Sander

pp.53-55

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_18
Of gradients and genes

developmental concepts of Theodor Boveri and his students

Klaus Sander

pp.56-58

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8_19

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 1997

Pages: 108

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8

ISBN (hardback): 978-3-642-64428-3

ISBN (digital): 978-3-642-60492-8

Full citation:

Sander Klaus (1997) Landmarks in developmental biology 1883–1924: historical essays from Roux's archives. Dordrecht, Springer.