Maternal Effect Genes in Development

Florence L. Marlow is at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA

Part I Meiosis and production of the oocyte and egg1. Post-transcriptional gene regulation regulates germline stem cell to oocyte transition during Drosophila oogenesisPatrick Blatt, Elliot T. Martin, Shane M. Breznak and Prashanth Rangan

2. Maternal inheritance of centromeres through the germlineArunika Das, Ben E. Black and Michael A. Lampson

3. Signaling between somatic follicle cells and the germline patterns the egg and embryo of DrosophilaJulie A. Merkle, Julia Wittes and Trudi Schüpbach

4. Organizing the oocyte: RNA localization meets phase separationSarah E. Cabral and Kimberly L. Mowry

Part II Fertilization and germline specification

5. Species-specific mechanisms during fertilizationKrista R. Gert and Andrea Pauli

6. The role of the cytoskeleton in germ plasm aggregation and compaction in the zebrafish embryoCara E. Moravec and Francisco Pelegri

7. Dead end and Detour: The function of the RNA-binding protein Dnd in posttranscriptional regulation in the germlineTheresa Gross-Thebing and Erez Raz

8. From mother to embryo: A molecular perspective on zygotic genome activationEdlyn Wu and Nadine L. Vastenhouw

Part III Maternal regulation of embryonic patterning and morphogenesis

9. Maternal regulation of seed growth and patterning in flowering plantsAllison R. Phillips and Matthew M.S. Evans

10. Maternal factors regulating symmetry breaking and dorsal-ventral axis formation in the sea urchin embryoMaria Dolores Molina and Thierry Lepage

11. Maternal factors regulating preimplantation development in miceDi Wu and Jurrien Dean

12. The maternal coordinate system: Molecular-genetics of embryonic axis formation and patterning in the zebrafishRicardo Fuentes, Benjamin Tajer, Manami Kobayashi, Jose L. Pelliccia, Yvette Langdon, Elliott W. Abrams and Mary C. Mullins

13. Maternal contributions to gastrulation in zebrafishLilianna Solnica-Krezel