MORPHOLOGY AND GENETICS OF DEVELOPMENT
cod. 1004817

Academic year 2012/13
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Anatomia umana (BIO/16)
Field
Scienze biomediche
Type of training activity
Basic
14 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: BIOSCIENCES

Learning objectives

the course means to supply the foundations of the developmental genetic and of the
organizations of the organism.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Genes, genotype and phenotype. The chromosomes: structure and function.
Basic concepts of development: determination and differentiation, development patterns in Metazoa: the Drosophila.
Development of the body patterns: segmentation genes.
Determination of sex.
Genetic control of eye development and evolution of the eye and photoreceptors.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Appunti dalle lezioni.
Suzuki DT, Griffiths AJF, Miller JH, Lewontin RC. Genetica. Principi di Analisi Formale. Zanichelli.

Nusslein-volhard, C. and E. Wieschaus. 1980. Mutations affecting segment, number and polarity in Drosophila. Nature 287: 795-801

J. Graw. Eye Development. Current Topics in Developmental Biology. 2010; 90:343-386.
J. Chen and M. Fishman. (2000). Genetics of heart development. TIG 16:383-388.

M. Simoes-Costa et al. (2005). The evolutionary origin of cardiac chambers. Dev.Biol. 277:1-15.

W.J.Nelson. (2003). Tube morphogenesis: closure, but many openings remain. TCB 13:615-621

Teaching methods

Oral lessons

Assessment methods and criteria

written examination

Other information

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