Developmental genetics -- reading

Optional reading for this lecture -- on reserve at the Undergrad library:

Nusslein-Volhard, C. (1996). Gradients that organize embryo development. Scientific American 275, 54-5; 58-61.

The author was one of the people who did the original screen for maternal effect and zygotic genes. She shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1995) for her work.