Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Landmarks in Developmental Biology 1883–1924

Historical Essays from Roux’s Archives

  • Book
  • © 1997

Overview

Authors:
  1. Klaus Sander

    1. Institut für Biologie I (Zoologie), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
$34.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

About this book

Developmental biology took shape between 1880 and the 1920s Basic concepts like the developmental role of chromosomes and the germ plasm (today's genome), self differentiation, embryonic regulation and induction, gradients and organizers hail from that period; indeed, the discipline was defined as a whole by the programmatic writings of Wilhelm Roux as early as 1889. The present essays cover the period up to the Nobel prize-winning work of Hans Spemann and Hilde Mangold. They were originally published in Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology, from Vol. 200 onward to the journal's centennial issues in 1995/96. The essays aim at introducing current adepts of developmental biology to observations and experiments that have lead their predecessors towards basic concepts still influential today.

Similar content being viewed by others

Keywords

Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Wilhelm Roux and his programme for developmental biology

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 1-3

  3. Wilhelm Roux’s treatise on “qualitative” mitoses — a “classic” by either definition

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 4-6

  4. Wilhelm Roux on embryonic axes, sperm entry and the grey crescent

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 7-9

  5. When seeing is believing: Wilhelm Roux’s misconceived fate map

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 10-12

  6. “Mosaic work” and “assimilating effects” in embryogenesis: Wilhelm Roux’s conclusions after disabling frog blastomeres

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 13-15

  7. Wilhelm Roux and the rest: Developmental theories 1885–1895

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 16-18

  8. Laurent Chabry (1855–1893) and the “Age d’or” of biology

    • Jean-Louis Fischer
    Pages 19-22

  9. The embryological œeuvre of Laurent Chabry

    • Jean-Louis Fischer
    Pages 23-25

  10. How to dart ascidian blastomeres: The embryological micro-tools of Laurent Chabry (1855–1893)

    • Klaus Sander, Jean-Louis Fischer
    Pages 26-28

  11. Shaking a concept: Hans Driesch and the varied fates of sea urchin blastomeres

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 29-31

  12. Hans Driesch the critical mechanist: “Analytische Theorie der organischen Entwicklung”

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 32-34

  13. Hans Driesch’s “philosophy really ab ovo”, or why to be a vitalist

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 35-37

  14. Entelechy and the ontogenetic machine — work and views of Hans Driesch from 1895 to 1910

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 38-40

  15. Theodor Boveri on cytoplasmic organization in the sea urchin egg

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 41-43

  16. Aneuploidy disrupts embryogenesis: Theodor Boveri’s analysis of sea urchin dispermy

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 44-46

  17. Reflections on method: Theodor Boveri’s evaluation of “natural experiments” and their table-top simulation

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 47-49

  18. Lessons from a queen’s lost offspring—Theodor Boveri on honeybee gynanders and other genetic mosaics

    • K. Sander
    Pages 50-52

  19. True alternatives: Boveri and Morgan arguing about the origins of honeybee gynanders

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 53-55

  20. Of gradients and genes: Developmental concepts of Theodor Boveri and his students

    • Klaus Sander
    Pages 56-58
Back to top

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Biologie I (Zoologie), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Klaus Sander

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Landmarks in Developmental Biology 1883–1924

  • Book Subtitle: Historical Essays from Roux’s Archives

  • Authors: Klaus Sander

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60492-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64428-3Published: 12 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60492-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 108

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Developmental Biology, Cell Biology

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation