* ELSEVIER Mechanisms of Development 86 (1999) 223-224 Volume contents Volume 86 (1999) Issue contents E. Shapira, K. Marom, R. Yelin, A. Levy, A. Fainsod (Israel) Review article A role for the homeobox gene Xvex-/ as part of the BMP- D. Gradl, M. Kiihl, D. Wedlich (Germany) 4 ventral signaling pathway Keeping a close eye on Wnt-1/wg signaling in Xenopus N. Gorfinkiel, L. Sanchez, 1. Guerrero (Spain) Original articles Drosophila terminalia as an appendage-like structure C. Konig, Y.L. Yan, J. Postlethwait, S. Wendler, J.A. Campos-Ortega (Germany, USA) D. Lebeche, S. Malpel, W.V. Cardoso (USA) A recessive mutation leading to vertebral ankylosis in Fibroblast growth factor interactions in the developing zebrafish is associated with amino acid alterations in lung the homologue of the human membrane-associated guanylate kinase DLG3 B. Giebel (Germany) The Notch signaling pathway is required to specify T. Takeuchi, M. Kojima, K. Nakajima, S. Kondo (Japan) muscle progenitor cells in Drosophila jumonji gene is essential for the neurulation and cardiac development of mouse embryos with a C3H/He back- Gene expression patterns ground R.1. Dorsky, A. Snyder, C.J. Cretekos, D.J. Grunwald, R. Geisler, P. Haffter, R.T. Moon, D.W. Raible (USA, Apidianakis, A.C. Nagel, A. Chalkiadaki, A. Preiss, Germany) ’. Delidakis (Greece, Germany) Maternal and embryonic expression of zebrafish /ef/ Overexpression of the m4 and ma genes of the E(spl)- Complex antagonizes Notch mediated lateral inhibition L. Groigno, L. Richard-Parpaillon, D. Boujard (France) Expression pattern of insulin receptor mRNA during K. Patel, H. Makarenkova, H.-S. Jung (UK, USA, Xenopus laevis embryogenesis Finland) The role of long range, local and direct signalling mole- S. Otte, S. Barnikol-Watanabe, G. Vorbriiggen, cules during chick feather bud development involving N. Hilschmann (Germany) the BMPs, Follistatin and the Eph receptor tyrosine NUCBI, the Drosophila melanogaster homolog of the kinase Eph-A4 mammalian EF-hand proteins NEFA and nucleobindin C. Maurel-Zaffran, S. Chauvet, N. Jullien, R. Miassod, Y. Chai, J. Zhao, A. Mogharei, B. Xu, P. Bringas Jr., J. Pradel, D. Aragnol (France) C. Shuler, D. Warburton (USA) nessy, an evolutionary conserved gene controlled by Hox Inhibition of transforming growth factor-B type II recep- proteins during Drosophila embryogenesis tor signaling accelerates tooth formation in mouse first branchial arch explants F.J. Lovicu, J.W. McAvoy (Australia) Sey: - <-oKIP2 Spatial and temporal expression of p57 during F.C. Wardle, J.V. Welch, L. Dale (UK) murine lens development Bone morphogenetic protein | regulates dorsal-ventral patterning in early Xenopus embryos by degrading chor- P.C.H. Lo, M. Frasch (USA) din, a BMP4 antagonist Sequence and expression of myoglianin, a novel Droso- phila gene of the TGF-B superfamily F. Stennard, A.M. Zorn, K. Ryan, N. Garrett, J.B. Gurdon (UK) H. Doerflinger, J.-A. Lepesant, C. Yanicostas (France) Differential expression of VegT and Antipodean protein Differential expression of the Drosophila zinc finger isoforms in Xenopus gene jim in the follicular epithelium 224 Volume contents J.-W. Xiong, A. Leahy, H. Stuhlmann (USA) G.N. Wheeler, S. Hoppler (UK) Retroviral promoter-trap insertion into a novel mamma- Two novel Xenopus frizzled genes expressed in devel- lian septin gene expressed during mouse neuronal devel- oping heart and brain 203 opment R.L. Beach, P. Seo, J.M. Venuti (USA) Expression of the sea urchin MyoD homologue, SUM], is not restricted to the myogenic lineage during embryo- F. Kuhn, C. Lassing, A. Range, M. Mueller, T. Hunziker, genesis A. Ziemiecki, A.-C. Andres (Switzerland, Austria) Erratum Pmg-/ and Pmg-2 constitute a novel family of KAP genes differentially expressed during skin and mammary gland development Author Index Subject Index H.B. Wood, V. Episkopou (UK) Volume Contents Comparative expression of the mouse Sox/, Sox2 and Sox3 genes from pre-gastrulation to early somite stages 197 Contents continued