Methods in Cell Biology VOLUME 87 Avian Embryology, 2nd Edition
Series Editors Leslie Wilson Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology University of California Santa Barbara, California
Paul Matsudaira Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Department of Biology Division of Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
Methods in Cell Biology VOLUME 87 Avian Embryology, 2nd Edition
Edited by
Dr. Marianne Bronner-Fraser California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California
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Front Cover Photo Credit: Three day old quail embryo immunostained with anti-neuronal class III b-tubulin (green) to show the developing central and peripheral nervous systems, and with QH-1 (red) to show vascular development. (Photograph by Peter Lwigale) Back Cover Photo Credit: Section through an quail-chick neural crest chimera in a three day old embryo immunostained with QCPN antibody (red) to show quail neural crest-derived contributions to the head. Section is counterstained with DAPI to show all nuclei. (Photograph by Peter Lwigale) Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier 84 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8RR, UK Radarweg 29, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USA First edition 1996 Copyright ß 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone (+44) (0) 1865 843830; fax (+44) (0) 1865 853333; email:
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