Developing diversity

Abstract

A successor to Eric Davidson's 2001 text, Genomic Regulatory Systems. PREFACE; THE FRAMEWORK; THE REGULATORY APPARATUS ENCODED IN THE DNA; THE REGULATORY DEMANDS OF DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE REGULATORY GENOME; GENERAL OPERATING PRINCIPLES; MODULARITY, A GENERAL PROPERTY OF GENOMIC REGULATORY CONTROL UNITS; INSIDE THE cis-REGULATORY MODULE: LOGIC PROCESSING AND INPUT/OUTPUT RELATIONS; cis-REGULATORY DESIGN; CONTROL BY SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC INTERACTIONS AMONG DISTANT cis-REGULATORY ELEMENTS; DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES OF THE PREGASTRULAR EMBRYO; COMPARATIVE VIEW OF EMBRYONIC PROCESSES, AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNDERLYING GENE.