The Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition [Hardcover]

The Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition provides users with an expert accounting of the mechanisms and functions of this transition in a range of animal and plant models.

The book provides critical information on how maternal gene products program the initial development of all animal and plant embryos, then undergoing a series of events, termed the maternal-to-zygotic transition, during which maternal products are cleared and zygotic genome activation takes over the developmental control.

• Maternal gene products program the initial development of all animal and plant embryos
• These then undergo a series of events, termed the maternal-to-zygotic transition, during which maternal products are cleared and zygotic genome activation takes over developmental control
• In this book, experts provide their insights into the mechanisms and functions of this transition in a range of animal and plant models.

1.?The Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition in C. Elegans
?Scott Robertson and Rueyling Lin
2.?Regulation and Function of Maternal Gene Products During Oocyte Maturation and the Maternal-To-Zygotic Transition in Drosophila
?John D. Laver, Alexander J. Marsolais, Craig A. Smibert and? Howard D. Lipshitz
3.?Transcriptional Activation of the Zygotic Genome in Drosophila
?Melissa M. Harrison and Michael B. Eisen
4.?Coordinating Cell Cycle Remodeling with Transcriptional Activation at the Drosophila MBT
?Shelby A. Blythe and Eric F. Wieschaus
5.?Germ Line Versus Soma in the Transition from Egg to Embryo
?S. Zachary Swartz and Gary M. Wessel
6.?The Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition During Vertebrate Development: a Model for Reprogramming
?Valeria Yartseva and Antonio J. Giraldez
7.?Building the future: pol³x