Emerging model organisms : A laboratory manual. volume 1. — Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2009. – (58.181/E53e/v.1)

Contents

    Contents
    
    A Note from the Publisher， ix
    1 The Choanoflagellates， 1
    2 Dictyostelium discoideum， 29
    3 The Moss Physcomitrella patens， 69
    4 The Genus Antirrhinum (Snapdragon)， 105
    5 Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)， 119
    6 The Demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica， 139
    7 Comb Jellies (Ctenophora)， 167
    8 Planarians， 195
    9 The Snail llyanassa， 219
    10 Helobdella (Leech)， 245
    11 Pristionchus pacificus， 275
    12 The African Butterfly Bicyclus anynana， 291
    13 The Two-spotted Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus， 331
    14 The American Wandering Spider Cupiennius salei， 347
    15 The Crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis， 373
    16 The Sea Lamprey Petromyzon marinus， 405
    17 The Dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula， 431
    18 The Genus Polypterus (Bichirs)， 447
    19 Astyanax mexicanus， The Blind Mexican Cave Fish， 469
    20 Darwin's Finches， 481
    21 Japanese Quail， 501
    22 The Short-tailed Fruit Bat Carollia perspicillata， 519
    23 Opossum (Monodelphis domestica)， 557
    General Cautions Appendix， 577
    Index， 587