Current Topics in Developmental Biology
Fertilization and Activation of Development
- 1st Edition, Volume 162 - May 21, 2025
- Editors: Paul Wassarman, Eveline Litscher
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 2 4 1 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 2 4 6 - 4
Fertilization and Activation of Development, Volume 162 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presen… Read more
Fertilization and Activation of Development, Volume 162 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.
Chapters in this new release include Fertilization and the fast block to polyspermy in the African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis: A historical perspective, The Mammalian Egg's Zona Pellucida, Fertilization, and Fertility, Function, structure, and regulation of the broadly conserved gamete membrane fusion protein, HAP2, Gamete activation for fertilization and seed development in flowering plants, Paternal contributions to mammalian zygote, and much more.
Additional sections cover Ovarian follicle formation and activation, Cytoskeletal dynamics in gamete (pro)nuclear migration across flowering plants, animals, and yeast, and Luteinizing hormone-induced changes in the structure of mammalian preovulatory follicles.
Chapters in this new release include Fertilization and the fast block to polyspermy in the African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis: A historical perspective, The Mammalian Egg's Zona Pellucida, Fertilization, and Fertility, Function, structure, and regulation of the broadly conserved gamete membrane fusion protein, HAP2, Gamete activation for fertilization and seed development in flowering plants, Paternal contributions to mammalian zygote, and much more.
Additional sections cover Ovarian follicle formation and activation, Cytoskeletal dynamics in gamete (pro)nuclear migration across flowering plants, animals, and yeast, and Luteinizing hormone-induced changes in the structure of mammalian preovulatory follicles.
- Presents a comprehensive exploration of the fertilization process, including gamete interaction, fusion, and early embryonic development
- Provides in-depth analysis of the molecular mechanisms underlying fertilization, sperm-egg recognition, and activation of embryonic development
- Examines the key events and signaling pathways involved in activating embryonic development post-fertilization
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Preface
Eveline Litscher and Paul M. Wassarman
1. Fertilization and the fast block to polyspermy in the African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis: A historical perspective
Anne E. Carlson
2. Chapter title to be confirmed
Jean-Ju Lucia Chung
3. Chapter title to be confirmed
Rafael Fissore
4. Chapter title to be confirmed
William H. Kinsey
5. Chapter title to be confirmed
Amber Krauchunas
6. The Mammalian Egg's Zona Pellucida, Fertilization, and Fertility
Eveline Litscher and Paul Wassarman
7. Chapter title to be confirmed
Hitoshi Sawada
8. Function, structure, and regulation of the broadly conserved gamete membrane fusion protein, HAP2
William J. Snell
9. Gamete activation for fertilization and seed development in flowering plants
Meng-xiang Sun, Hanxian Xiong and Wei Wang
10. Paternal contributions to mammalian zygote.
Peter J. Sutovsky
11. Chapter title to be confirmed
Karl Swann
12. Chapter title to be confirmed
Pablo E. Visconti
13. Chapter title to be confirmed
Gary Wessel
14. Chapter title to be confirmed
Mariana Federica Wolfner
15. Ovarian follicle formation and activation
Hua Zhang, Xuebing Yang and Yan Zhang
16. Cytoskeletal dynamics in gamete (pro)nuclear migration across flowering plants, animals, and yeast
Tomo Kawashima and Yilin Zhang
17. Luteinizing hormone-induced changes in the structure of mammalian preovulatory follicles
Laurinda Jaffe and Corie Owen
Eveline Litscher and Paul M. Wassarman
1. Fertilization and the fast block to polyspermy in the African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis: A historical perspective
Anne E. Carlson
2. Chapter title to be confirmed
Jean-Ju Lucia Chung
3. Chapter title to be confirmed
Rafael Fissore
4. Chapter title to be confirmed
William H. Kinsey
5. Chapter title to be confirmed
Amber Krauchunas
6. The Mammalian Egg's Zona Pellucida, Fertilization, and Fertility
Eveline Litscher and Paul Wassarman
7. Chapter title to be confirmed
Hitoshi Sawada
8. Function, structure, and regulation of the broadly conserved gamete membrane fusion protein, HAP2
William J. Snell
9. Gamete activation for fertilization and seed development in flowering plants
Meng-xiang Sun, Hanxian Xiong and Wei Wang
10. Paternal contributions to mammalian zygote.
Peter J. Sutovsky
11. Chapter title to be confirmed
Karl Swann
12. Chapter title to be confirmed
Pablo E. Visconti
13. Chapter title to be confirmed
Gary Wessel
14. Chapter title to be confirmed
Mariana Federica Wolfner
15. Ovarian follicle formation and activation
Hua Zhang, Xuebing Yang and Yan Zhang
16. Cytoskeletal dynamics in gamete (pro)nuclear migration across flowering plants, animals, and yeast
Tomo Kawashima and Yilin Zhang
17. Luteinizing hormone-induced changes in the structure of mammalian preovulatory follicles
Laurinda Jaffe and Corie Owen
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 162
- Published: May 21, 2025
- Language: English
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Paul Wassarman
Paul M. Wassarman, the Series Editor of CTDB since 2007, is Professor in the Dept. Developmental and Regenerative Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Brandeis University where he carried out thesis research in the Graduate Dept. Biochemistry with Professor Nathan O. Kaplan. In 1967 Wassarman joined the Division of Structural Studies at the MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England as a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellow with Sir John C. Kendrew. In 1972 he joined the faculty of the Dept. Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School and in 1986 moved to the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology where he was Chair of the Dept. Cell and Developmental Biology and Adjunct Professor in the Dept. Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine. In 1996 he moved to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he was the Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professorial Chair of the Dept. Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. Wassarman has published more than 200 research papers and reviews, dealing primarily with mammalian oogenesis, fertilization, and early embryogenesis.
Affiliations and expertise
Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, USAEL
Eveline Litscher
Eveline Litscher is at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Affiliations and expertise
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