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David R. McClay Jr.

Arthur S. Pearse Professor Emeritus of Biology
Biology
Box 90338, Department of Biology, Durham, NC 27708-1000
4102 French Science Center, Science Dr., Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Development of a larval nervous system in the sea urchin.

Book section · January 2022 This review reports recent findings on the specification and patterning of neurons that establish the larval nervous system of the sea urchin embryo. Neurons originate in three regions of the embryo. Perturbation analyses enabled construction of gene regul ... Full text Cite

Gastrulation in the sea urchin.

Book section · January 2020 Gastrulation is arguably the most important evolutionary innovation in the animal kingdom. This process provides the basic embryonic architecture, an inner layer separated from an outer layer, from which all animal forms arise. An extraordinarily simple an ... Full text Cite

Unlocking mechanisms of development through advances in tools.

Book section · January 2019 This perspective describes how our understanding of sea urchin development has been enabled by advances in technology. The early conceptual discoveries that put the sea urchin embryo on the research map had to wait until technologies were available to expl ... Full text Cite