Ernest Everett Just, Johannes Holtfreter, and the origin of certain concepts in embryo morphogenesis

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 912-921

  Byrnes, W Malcolm ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; BLASTOMERE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EMBRYOLOGY; EUROPE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ECHINOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 69749119313     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21081     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (48)

1. Barth LG. 1941. Neural differentiation without organizer. J Exp Zool 87:371-383.
2. Byrnes WM. 2007. Just, Ernest Everett (1883-1941). In: Koertge N, editor. The new dictionary of scientific biography. Farmington Hills, MI:Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale Norton. pp 48-52.
3. Byrnes WM, Eckberg WR. 2006. Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941)-An early ecological developmental biologist. Dev Biol 296:1-11.
4. Crow JF. 2008. Just and unjust: E.E. Just (1883-1941). Genetics 179:1735-1740.
5. De Robertis EM. 2006. Spemann's organizer and self-regulation in amphibian embryos. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 7:296-302.
6. Gerhart J. 1996. Johannes Holtfreter's contributions to ongoing studies of the organizer. Dev Dyn 205:245-256. (Pubitemid 26074002)
7. Gerhart J. 1998. Johannes Holtfreter (January 9, 1901 November 13 1992). In: Office of the Home Secretary, National Academy of Sciences, editor. Biographical memoirs, Vol.73. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. pp 208-229.
8. Gilbert SF. 1988. Cellular politics: Just, Goldschmidt, and the attempts to reconcile embryology and genetics. In: Rainger R, Benson D, Maienschein J, editors. The American Development of Biology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp 311-346.
9. Gilbert SF. 2006. Developmental biology, 8th edition. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
10. Gilbert SF, Epel D. 2009. Ecological developmental biology: Integrating epigenetics, medicine, and evolution. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
11. Gilbert SF, Sarkar S. 2000. Embracing complexity: Organicism for the 21st century. Dev Dyn 219:1-9. (Pubitemid 30667118)
12. Gould SJ. 1985. Just in the middle: A solution to the mechanist-vitalist controversy. In The Flamingo's smile: Reflections in natural history. New York: WW Norton and Company. pp 377-391.
13. Gould SJ. 1988. Thwarted genius. In: An urchin in the storm: Essays about books and ideas. New York: WW Norton and Company. pp 169-179.
14. Grunwald GB. 1991. The conceptual and experimental foundations of vertebrate embryonic cell adhesion research. In: Gilbert SF, editor. A conceptual history of modern embryology. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp 129-158.
15. Hamburger V. 1996. Introduction: Johannes Holtfreter, pioneer in experimental embryology. Dev Dyn 205:214-216.
16. Hemmati-Brivanlou A, Melton D. 1997. Vertebrate embryonic cells will become nerve cells unless told otherwise. Cell 88: 13-17. (Pubitemid 27180326)
17. Holtfreter J. 1939 (translated 1964). Tissue affinity, a means of embryonic morphogenesis. In: Willier BH, Oppenheimer JM, editors. Foundations of experimental embryology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. pp 186-225.
18. Holtfreter J. 1947. Neural induction in explants which have passed through a sublethal cytolysis. J Exp Zool 106:197-222.
19. Holtfreter J. 1948. Concepts on the mechanism of embryonic induction and its relation to parthenogenesis and malignancy. Symp Soc Exp Biol 2:217-248.
20. Holtfreter J. 1991. Reminiscences on the life and work of Johannes Holtfreter. In: Gilbert SF, editor. A conceptual history of modern embryology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp 109-127.
21. Hurtado C, De Robertis EM. 2007. Neural induction in the absence of organizer in salamanders is mediated by MAPK. Dev Biol 307:282-289. (Pubitemid 47001361)
22. Just EE. 1912. The relation of the first cleavage plane to the entrance point of the sperm. Biol Bull 22:239-252.
23. Just EE. 1914. Breeding habits of the heteronereis form of Platynereis megalops at Woods Hole, Mass. Biol Bull 27:201-212.
24. Just EE. 1919a. The fertilization reaction of Echinarachnius parma. II. The role of fertilizin in straight and cross fertilization. Biol Bull 36:11-38.
25. Just EE. 1919b. The fertilization reaction in Echinarachnius parma. I. Cortical response of the egg to insemination. Biol Bull 36:1-10.
26. Just EE. 1929a. The fertilization reaction in eggs of Paracentrotus and Echinus. Biol Bull 36:326-331.
27. Just EE. 1929b. Breeding habits of Nereis dumerilii at Naples. Biol Bull 57:307-310.
28. Just EE. 1930. The present status of the fertilizin theory of fertilization. Protoplasma 10:300-342.
29. Just EE. 1931. Die rolle des kortikalen cytoplasmas bei vitalen ersheinungen. Naturwiss 19:953-1001.
30. Just EE. 1932. On the origin of mutations. Am Nat 66:61-74.
31. Just EE. 1933. Cortical cytoplasm and evolution.Am Nat 67:20-29.
32. Just EE. 1936. A single theory for the physiology of development and genetics. Am Nat Supl 70:267-312.
33. Just EE. 1939a. Basic methods for experiments on eggs of marine animals. Philadelphia: Blakiston's Son and Company.
34. Just EE. 1939b. The biology of the cell surface. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Company.
35. Just EE. 1940. Unsolved problems in general biology. Physiol Zool 13:23-142.
36. Kuroda H, Fuentealba L, Ikeda A, Reversade B, De Robertis EM. 2005. Default neural induction: Neuralization of dissociated Xenopus cells is mediated by Ras/MAPK activation. Genes Dev 19:1022-1027. (Pubitemid 40632447)
37. Lillie FR. 1942. Ernest Everett Just: August 14, 1883, to October 27, 1941. Science 95:10-11.
38. Lillie FR, Just EE. 1913. Breeding habits of the heteronereis form of Nereis limbata at Woods Hole, Mass. Biol Bull 27:147-169.
39. Manning KR. 1983. Black apollo of science: The life of Ernest Everett Just. New York: Oxford University Press.
40. Moscona AA. 1986. Johannes Holtfreter at 85. Cell Differ 19:75-77.
41. Newman SA. 2003. AT The fall and rise of systems biology. Gene-Watch 16:8-12.
42. Okada TS. 1996. The path leading to the discovery of cadherin: In retrospect. Dev Growth Differ 38:583-596.
43. Parrington J, Davis LC, Galione A, Wessel G. 2007. Flipping the switch: How a sperm activates the egg at fertilization. Dev Dyn 236:2027-2038. (Pubitemid 47293748)
44. Pauly PJ. 1987. The invention of artificial parthenogenesis. In: Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology. New York: Oxford University Press. pp 93-117.
45. Spemann H, Mangold H. 1924. Induction of embryonic primordia by implantation of organizers from a different species. Roux's Arch Entw Mech 100:599-623.
46. Stern C. 2006. Neural induction: 10 years on since the 'default model'. Curr Opin Cell Biol 18:692-697.
47. Van de Vijver G, Van Speybroeck L, De Waele D. 2002. Epigenetics: A challenge for genetics, evolution, and development? Ann NY Acad Sci 981:1-6.
48. Wilson PA, Hemmati-Brivanlou A. 1995. Induction of epidermis and inhibition of neural fate by Bmp-4. Nature 376:331-333.