Contents
Preface ix
List of Contributors xv
Gene expression during mouse spermatogenesis 1
Klaus Steger
Egg zone pellucida, egg vitelline envelope, and related extracellular glycoproteins 31
Luca Jovine, Eveline S. Litscher and Paul M. Wassarman
Activation of zygotic gene expression in mammals 55
Melvin L. DePamphilis, Kotaro J. Kaneko and Alex Vassilev
Early embryonic gene transcription in Xenopus 85
Gert Jan C. Veenstra
The cell cycle during oogenesis and early embryogenesis in Drosophila 107
Giovanni Bosco and Terry L. Orr-Weaver
Anterior-posterior patterning in the Drosophila embryo 155
Andrezej Nasiadka, Bruce H. Dietrich and Henry M. Krause
Embryonic stem cell development in mammals 205
Colin L. Stewart
Genomic imprinting 233
Katharine L. Arney, Sylvia Erhardt and M. Azim Surani
Colour plate section 265