Contributors
Anita Abu-Daya
European Xenopus Resource Centre and School of
Biological Sciences
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, UK
Ira L. Blitz
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA
Chenbei Chang
Department of Biological Chemistry
Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Ken W.Y. Cho
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA
Edward M. De Robertis
Department of Biological Chemistry
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of
California
Los Angeles, California, USA
Abraham Fainsod
Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer
Research
Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of
Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Gabriela Edwards-Faret
Life & Medical Sciences Institute
University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany
Michael Forsthofer
Department Biology II
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Planegg, Germany
Delfna P. González
Department of Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Clayton Gordy
Department Biology II
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Planegg, Germany
Matt Guille
European Xenopus Resource Centre and School of
Biological Sciences
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, UK
Stefan Hoppler
Aberdeen Developmental Biology Group and Aberdeen
Cardiovascular and Diabetes Centre
Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Marko E. Horb
Marine Biological Laboratory
National Xenopus Resource and Eugene Bell Center for
Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Eva Hörmanseder
Helmholtz-Zentrum München
Institute for Epigenetics and Stem Cells
Munich, Germany
Douglas W. Houston
Department of Biology
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Allison M. Jevitt
Program in Cell Cycle and Cancer Biology
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Mustafa K. Khokha
Department of Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Steven L. Klein
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
George Washington University School of Medicine and
Health Sciences
Washington, DC, USA
Mariko Kondo
Laboratory of Aquatic Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences,
University of Tokyo
Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
Michael Kühl
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Ulm University
Ulm, Germany
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