The Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition

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 embryosThese 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 controlIn 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: post-transcriptional regulation of cell fate decisions prior to the Xenopus midblastula transition
 Michael D. Sheets
8. The Xenopus Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition from the Perspective of the Germline
  Jing Yang, Tristan Aguero and Mary Lou King
9. Sculpting the Transcriptome During the Oocyte-to-Embryo Transition in Mouse
 Petr Svoboda, Vedran Franke and Richard M. Schultz
10. The Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition in flowering Plants: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Plasticity
 Célia Baroux and Ueli Grossniklaus
11. The Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition in Higher Plants: Available Approaches, Critical Limitations and Technical Requirements
 Peng Zhao and Meng-Xiang Sun