Introduction

This article introduces a series of papers that were originally presented at a workshop titled Genetic Regulatory Networks in Embryogenesis and Evolution. The workshop, which was held at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, from 11 to 14 June 1997, was sponsored by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Space Life Sciences at MBL and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Cooperative Agreement NCC 2-896.