O’Connor (ed) UCLA Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology. New Series, vol. 66. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1987

Developmental Biology of Invertebrates is an old and illustrious subject; if you don’t believe this, pick the closest developmental biology treatise at hand. Nowadays, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has taken the limelight and has sent many relatives into oblivion or simply into text books. This is easily justified because of the profound insights emerging from vigorous research in Drosophila. The symposium reported in the Molecular Biology of Invertebrate Development represents an attempt to restore a balance. This is a difficult enterprise because the study of invertebrate development, with the exceptions of the leech, the nematode, the sea urchin and the fruit fly has not been an insightful area of research for some time, notably at the molecular level. There are signs that this about to change, largely due to...

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