From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Sun Jan 09 22:00:00 1994
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Subject: Re: Books on drosophila developmental genetics
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From: geisler@genvax.mpib-tuebingen.mpg.de (Robert Geisler)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 02:07:01 +0100
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In article <1994Jan6.124753.23703@chemabs.uucp>, btf64@cas.org (Bernard T.
French) wrote:

>      Could someone recommend one or several books which cover drosophila
> developmental genetics.  I'm especially interested in books which focus on
> cellular and molecular mechanisms in early embryogenesis pattern and polarity
> development.

As an introduction, I would recommend P.A. Lawrence, The Making of a Fly
(Blackwell, 1992).
J.M.W. Slack, From Egg to Embryo (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
discusses Drosophila development in the context of other model systems.

Regards,
Robert

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