This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of research on the effect of elevated temperature on developmental programs and on the possible roles of heat shock proteins in normal development in animals and plants.

I Heat Shock-Induced Developmental Abnormalties

1 Heat Shock Effects in Snail Development
2 Environmentally Induced Development Defects in Drosophila
3 The Use of Heat-Shock-Induced Ectopic Expression to Examine the Functions of Genes Regulating Development
4 Thermotolerance and Heat Shock Response During Early Development of the Mammalian Embryo
5 Strain Differences in Expression of the Murine Heat Shock Response: Implications for Abnormal Neural Development
II Cell-Specific and Developmental Control of Hsp Synthesis
6 The Expression of Heat Shock Protein and Cognate Genes During Plant Development
7 Expression of Heat Shock Proteins During Development in Drosophila
8 Regulation of Heat Shock Gene Expression During Xenopus Development
9 Heat Shock Gene Expression During Mammalian Gametogenesis and Early Embryogenesis
10 Heat Shock Protein Synthesis in Preimplantation Mouse Embryo and Embryonal Carcinoma Cells
11 Transcriptional Regulation of Human Hsp70 Genes: Relationship Between Cell Growth, Differentiation, Virus Infection, and the Stress Response
12 Transforming Growth Factor-? Regulates Basal Expression of the hsp70 Gene Family in Cultured Chicken Embryo Cells
13 Cell Growth, Cytoskeleton, and Heat Shock Proteins
14 Expression of Heat Shock Genes (hsp70) in the Mammalian Nervous System.