Gametogenesis

by Elsevier Science

Overview

This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers the area of gametogenesis, with contributions from an international board of authors. The chapters provide a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as germline stem cells, signaling modalities during oogenesis in mammals, and genomic imprinting as a parental effect established in mammalian germ cells.

• Covers the area of gametogenesis
• International board of authors
• Provides a comprehensive set of reviews covering such topics as germline stem cells, signaling modalities during oogenesis in mammals, and genomic imprinting as a parental effect established in mammalian germ cells

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123914378
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/31/2012
Series:	ISSN , #102
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	456
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. Cohesin in Gametogenesis
2. Genomic Imprinting is a Parental Effect Established in Mammalian Germ Cells
3. The Identity and Fate Decision Control of Spermatogonial Stem Cells: Where is the Point of No Return?
4. Germline Stem Cells
5. LINCing the Nuclear Envelope to Gametogenesis
6. Small RNAs in Germline Development
7. The Control of Meiotic Maturation in Mammalian Oocytes
8. Signaling Modalities During Oogenesis in Mammals
9. Biogenesis of the Mouse Egg’s Extracellular Coat, the Zona Pellucida
10. Molecular Changes During Egg Activation
11. The Role of the Double Bromodomain-Containing Bet Genes During Mammalian Spermatogenesis
12. DMRT Genes in Vertebrate Gametogenesis
13. RanBPM, a Scaffolding Protein for Gametogenesis
14. K+ and Cl- channels and transporters in sperm function