This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of research on the effect of elevated temperature on developmental programs and on the possible roles of heat shock proteins in normal development in animals and plants.

Inhalt
I Heat Shock-Induced Developmental Abnormalties.- 1 Heat Shock Effects in Snail Development.- 2 Environmentally Induced Development Defects in Drosophila.- 3 The Use of Heat-Shock-Induced Ectopic Expression to Examine the Functions of Genes Regulating Development.- 4 Thermotolerance and Heat Shock Response During Early Development of the Mammalian Embryo.- 5 Strain Differences in Expression of the Murine Heat Shock Response: Implications for Abnormal Neural Development.- II Cell-Specific and Developmental Control of Hsp Synthesis.- 6 The Expression of Heat Shock Protein and Cognate Genes During Plant Development.- 7 Expression of Heat Shock Proteins During Development in Drosophila.- 8 Regulation of Heat Shock Gene Expression During Xenopus Development.- 9 Heat Shock Gene Expression During Mammalian Gametogenesis and Early Embryogenesis.- 10 Heat Shock Protein Synthesis in Preimplantation Mouse Embryo and Embryonal Carcinoma Cells.- 11 Transcriptional Regulation of Human Hsp70 Genes: Relationship Between Cell Growth, Differentiation, Virus Infection, and the Stress Response.- 12 Transforming Growth Factor-? Regulates Basal Expression of the hsp70 Gene Family in Cultured Chicken Embryo Cells.- 13 Cell Growth, Cytoskeleton, and Heat Shock Proteins.- 14 Expression of Heat Shock Genes (hsp70) in the Mammalian Nervous System.