2 Genes and Their Products in Sea Urchin Development

1999

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the genes and their products in sea urchin development. Sea urchin embryos were among the first eukaryotes in which regulation of gene expression was studied and still represent one of the main developing systems for which most of the literature has accumulated in the past and also in recent years. The interest in the subject has, however, shifted from the molecular biology field—that is, from the study of the mechanisms of regulation of gene expression—to a field in which the role of genes and their products on development is being considered. The study of the synthesis of histones has served the purpose of trying to understand the mechanisms, unde…