DEVELOPMENT and EVOLUTION

Selected publications from the Schierenberg Lab:

Reviews:


Schierenberg, E (2004)
           
              Caenorhabditis elegans: Determination of germ cell fate. In: Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons,
               Ltd: Chichester. http://www.els.net/ [doi:10.1038/npg.els.0001501], pp. 1-7..


Schierenberg, E. (2006)

Embryological variation during nematode development. WormBook, ed. The C.  elegans Research Community. WormBok, doi/10.1895/wormbook. 1.55.1, www.wormbook.org. pp. 1-13.


Schierenberg, E., Schulze J. (2008)

Many roads lead to Rome: Different ways to construct a nematode. In: Evolving pathways. Key themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology (A. Minelli and G. Fusco, eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 261-280.


Some older reviews in German:


Schierenberg E, Cassada R (1986)

Der Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Biologie in unserer Zeit 16: 1-7


Schierenberg E (1987)

Vom Ei zum Organismus. Biologie in unserer Zeit 17: 97-106


Schierenberg E (1997)

Spezifikation des Zellschicksals im frühen Embryo von Caenorhabditis elegans. Naturwissenschaften 84: 55-64.



Selected recent original publications:


Laugsch, M, Schierenberg, E (2004)

Differences in maternal supply and early development of closely related nematode species. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 48: 655-662.


Schierenberg, E (2005)

Unusual cleavage and gastrulation in a freshwater nematode: developmental and phylogenetic implications. Development, Genes and Evolution 215: 103-108.


Lahl,V., Sadler, B., Schierenberg, E. (2006).

Egg development in parthenogenetic nematodes: variations in meiosis and axis formation. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 50: 393-398.


Schulze J, Schierenberg, E. (2008).

Cellular pattern formation, establishment of polarity and segregation of colored cytoplasm in embryos of the nematode Romanomermis culicivorax. Dev. Biol. 315: 426-436.


Lahl, V., Schulze, J., Schierenberg , E. (2009).

Differeces in embryonic pattern formation between Caenorhabditis elegans and its close parthenogenetic relative Diploscapter coronatus. Int. J. Dev. Biol. (in press)


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