Chapter 9 - Bibliography
Burley, R. W. and D. V. Vadehra. 1989. The Avian Egg: Chemistry and Biology. John Wiley and Sons, New York. Full of tables and graphs, this book includes every statistic about an egg that you probably ever could use.
Deeming, D. C. and M. W. J. Ferguson (eds.). 1991. Egg Incubation: Its Effects On Embryonic Development in Birds and Reptiles. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. This is a collection of papers from an international meeting. The comparisons between bird and reptile are fascinating. For example, did you know that although bird eggs require turning during incubation, turning a reptilian egg usually kills the embryo?
Diaz, C., L. Puelles, F. Marín and J. C. Glover. 1998. The relationship between rhombomeres and vestibular neuron populations as assessed in quail-chicken chimeras. Dev. Biol. 202: 14–28. This is an excellent example of combining the more modern techniques of immunohistochemistry with the older technique of using chimeras in fate mapping.
Hamburger, V. and H. L. Hamilton. 1951. A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo. J. Morphol. 88: 49–92. This is the original printing of the Hamburger-Hamilton chick staging series. It contains an exquisite set of photographs and drawings along with the written description of each stage.
North, M. O. 1972. Commercial Chicken Production Manual. Avi Publishing Co., Westport, CT. A war-horse of a manual, this will stand by you with ready answers to a host of practical questions about chick eggs and their incubation.
Romanoff, A. L. and A. J. Romanoff. 1949. The Avian Egg. John Wiley and Sons, New York. This is a classic. Though some of the biochemical information is now outdated, the wealth of anatomical details is well worth the task of carrying such a heavy book around.
Selleck, M. and C. Stern. 1991. Fate mapping and cell lineage analysis of Hensen’s node in the chick embryo. Development. 112: 615–626. A superb look at how to do classic fate mapping with modern techniques.
Spratt, N. T., Jr. 1946. Formation of the primitive streak in the explanted chick blastoderm marked with carbon particles. J. Exp. Zool. 103: 259–304. This is a classic paper showing the original ways in which fate maps were determined.
Stern, C. D., 1994. The chick. In Embryos, Color Atlas of Development. J. B. L. Bard (ed.). Wolfe Publ., London, pp. 167–182. An excellent review of early chick development that includes a discussion of fate mapping techniques.
Tuan, R., 1987. Mechanisms and regulation of calcium transport by the chick embryonic chorioallantoic membrane. J. Exp. Zool. [Suppl.] 1: 1–13. This paper demonstrates that calcium needed from bone formation in the chick embryo is resorbed from the eggshell by the chorioallantoic membrane and brought back to the embryo by the allantoic blood vessels.