Contributors

1. Neural Induction in Xenopus

Richard M. Harland

2. The Determination of the Neuronal Phenotype

David J. Anderson

Yuh Nung Jan

3. Neuron-Glial Interactions

Barbara A. Barres

4. Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Guidance and Target Recognition

Corey S. Goodman

Marc Tessier-Lavigne

5. Synapse Formation: A Molecular Perspective

Joshua R. Sanes

Richard H. Scheller

6. Neurotrophic Factors and Their Receptors: Roles in Neuronal Development and Function

Louis F. Reichardt

Isabel Farinas

7. Neuronal Cell Death

Julie Agapite

Hermann Steller

8. Inductive Signals and the Assignment of Cell Fate in the Spinal Cord and Hindbrain: An Axial Coordinate System for Neural Patterning

Thomas M. Jessell

Andrew Lumsden

9. The Role of Hox Genes in Hindbrain Development

Mario R. Capecchi

10. Regulation of Patterning and Differentiation in the Embryonic Vertebrate Forebrain

John L. R. Rubenstein

Kenji Shimamura

11. Lineage Analysis in the Vertebrate Central Nervous System

Constance L. Cepko

Jeffrey A. Golden

Francis G. Szele

John C. Lin

12. Development of the Cerebral Cortex: Mechanisms Controlling Cell Fate, Laminar and Areal Patterning, and Axonal Connectivity

Anjen Chenn

Janet E. Braisted

Susan K. McConnell

Dennis D.M. O'Leary

13. The Development of the Drosophila Visual System

Tanya Wolff

Kathleen A. Martin

Gerald M. Rubin

S. Lawrence Zipursky

14. Neurotrophins and Visual System Plasticity

Carla J. Shatz

15. Linking Layers and Connecting Columns: The Development of Local Circuits in Visual Cortex

Lawrence C. Katz

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