Cellular Networks in Development Current Topics in Developmental Biology Series

Current Topics in Developmental Biology, Volume 143, the latest release in this acclaimed series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting new sections on Building a ciliated epithelium: Transcriptional regulation and radial intercalation of multiciliated cells, Biomechanics of Amphibian Morphogenesis, Planar cell polarity during neural tube closure, Left-right asymmetry research in Xenopus: Questions solved and new frontiers, Xenopus neural crest and its relevance to human disease, Endoderm organogenesis, From egg to embryo in marsupial frogs, Evo-devo lessons from the analysis of Xenopus genomes, Transcriptional regulation during zygotic genome activation, and much more.

1. Secrets of secretion—How studies of the Drosophila salivary gland have informed our understanding of the cellular networks underlying secretory organ form and function
Rajprasad Loganathan, Ji Hoon Kim, Michael B. Wells, and Deborah J. Andrew
2. Cells into tubes: Molecular and physical principles underlying lumen formation in tubular organs
Carolina Camelo and Stefan Luschnig
3. Pancreas morphogenesis: Branching in and then out
Lydie Flasse, Coline Schewin, and Anne Grapin-Botton
4. Development of the metanephric kidney
Ian M. Smyth
5. Network patterning, morphogenesis and growth in lymphatic vascular development
Lin Grimm and Benjamin M. Hogan
6. The control of lung branching morphogenesis
Dagmar Iber
7. Uncovering cellular networks in branching morphogenesis using single-cell transcriptomics
Katharine Goodwin and Celeste M. Nelson
8. Building the complex architectures of vascular networks: Where to branch, where to connect and where to remodel?
Jianmin Yin, Daniel Heutschi, Heinz-Georg Belting, and Markus Affolter