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Insulin family of growth factors and signal transduction during development / C.R. Ward ... [et al.] -- Developmental regulation and signal transduction pathways of fibroblast growth factors and their receptors / Keith Miller, Angie Rizzino -- Platelet-derived growth factor in development / Daniel F. Bowen-Pope, Ronald A. Seifert -- T-cell signalling and activation through the interleukin-2 receptor complex / Naochiro Terada ... [et al.] -- Transforming growth factor [beta] family in vertebrate embryogenesis / Rosemary J. Akhurst -- Ras signal transduction pathway in development / Richard T. Hamilton -- Protein phosphatases in cell proliferation, differentiation and development / Thomas S. Ingerbritsen, Kelaginamane T. Hiriyanna, Keli Hippen -- Growth factors and signal transduction in Drosophila / Eric C. Liebl, F. Michael Hoffman -- Cell interactions and signal transduction in C. elegans development / Simon Tuck, Iva Greenwald -- Embryonic induction and axis formation in Xenopus laevis: growth factor action and early response genes / Igor B. Dawid.