Size control in biology : from organelles to organisms / edited by Rebecca Heald, Iswar K. Hariharan, David B. Wake. -- Cold Spring Harbor, New York : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2015. – (59.5186/S625)

Contents

Preface, v

Growing an Embryo from a Single Cell: A Hurdle in Animal Life, 1

The Systemic Control of Growth, 25

Indeterminate Growth: Could It Represent the Ancestral Condition?, 55

Biological Scaling Problems and Solutions in Amphibians, 73

Organ-Size Regulation in Mammals, 89

Size Control in Plants--Lessons from Leaves and Flowers, 101

Control of Organ Growth by Patterning and Hippo Signaling in Drosophila, 117

Mechanical Forces and Growth in Animal Tissues, 133

The Influence of Genome and Cell Size on Brain Morphology in Amphibians, 151

A Phyletic Perspective on Cell Growth, 167

Genome Biology and the Evolution of Cell-Size Diversity, 183

Cell-Size Control, 193

Small but Mighty: Cell Size and Bacteria, 209

The Opposing Actions of Target of Rapamycin and AMP-Activated Protein Kinase in Cell Growth Control, 221

Nuclear DNA Content Varies with Cell Size across Human Cell Types, 241

Subcellular Size, 269

Intracellular Scaling Mechanisms, 285

Size Scaling of Microtubule Assemblies in Early Xenopus Embryos, 301

Index, 313