Edited by: Juan Aréchaga and Isabel Palmeirim
In front of an old beautiful map from 1631, the pleasant time when Spain and Portugal still formed a unified country, stand a selection of representative figures of Hispanic Biological Morphology, Genetics and Biochemistry of all times. The actual progress of Developmental Biology in our countries cannot be understood without them. These seminal figures, background left to right, are: Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (1905-1993) Nobel Prize in 1959, Augusto Celestino Da Costa (1884-1956), José F. David-Ferreira (b.1929), Francisco Orts-Llorca (1905-1993), Aureliano Maestre de San Juan y Muñoz (1828-1890), Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia (1850-1944), Antonio García-Bellido (b. 1936) and Antonio Gimbernat y Arbós (1734-1816); foreground, left to right: Juan Valverde de Amusco (ca. 1525-1588), Martín Martínez (1684-1736), Crisóstomo Martínez (1638-1694) and Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) Nobel Prize in 1906.
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Augusto Celestino da Costa (1884-1956) - professor, scientist and science promoter
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A perspective on the development of Genetics in Spain during the XX Century
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Plant Developmental Biology in Spain: from the origins to our days and prospects for the future
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Teaching and research on Developmental Biology in Portugal
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The teaching of Developmental Biology in Spain: future challenges
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A personal account of the development of modern biological research in Portugal
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A small great history of the sister Societies of Developmental Biology in Spain and Portugal
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Iberia: from fable to the bench
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Idealism and romantic patriotism for science - an interview with José Francisco David-Ferreira
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The cellular and genetic bases of organ size and shape in Drosophila
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Segmentation, metamerism and the Cambrian explosion
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Planarian regeneration: achievements and future directions after 20 years of research
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Recent advances in Drosophila stem cell biology
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Genetic control of morphogenesis - Hox induced organogenesis of the posterior spiracles
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Portuguese contributions to the discovery and characterization of the embryonic molecular clock
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Early neural cell death: numbers and cues from the developing neuroretina
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Epiblast-derived stem cells in embryonic and adult tissues
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Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions in development and disease: old views and new perspectives
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Reprogramming of melanoma cells by embryonic microenvironments
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Frontiers in fluorescence microscopy
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Chromatin remodeling in plant development
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Instructive roles for hormones in plant development
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Lessons from a search for leaf mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana
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Genetic analysis of reproductive development in tomato
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Genetic, molecular and cellular approaches to the analysis of maize embryo development
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