Vertebrate Development Maternal to Zygotic Control /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pelegri, Francisco (Editor), Danilchik, Michael (Editor), Sutherland, Ann (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 953
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Cell biology.; Embryology.; Life Sciences.; Cell Biology.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of topics describing the earliest steps of fertilization, from egg activation and fertilization to the activation of the zygotic genome, in various studied vertebrate model systems. The contribution of maternal and paternal factors and their role in the ea...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Egg Activation at Fertilization
• 2. Controlling the Messenger: Regulated Translation of Maternal mRNAs in Xenopus laevis Development
• 3. Regulation of Cell Division
• 4. Vertebrate Embryonic Cleavage Pattern Determination
• 5. Localization in Oogenesis of Maternal Regulators of Embryonic Development
• 6. Vertebrate Axial Patterning: from Egg to Asymmetry
• 7. Establishment of the Vertebrate Germ Layers
• 8. Mechanisms of Vertebrate Germ Cell Determination
• 9. Cell Cycle Remodeling and Zygotic Gene Activation at the Midblastula Transition
• 10. Clearance of Parental Products
• Index.