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Author:   Hitoshi Sawada ,  Naokazu Inoue ,  Megumi Iwano
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Japan
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Japan
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Weight:   8.268kg
ISBN:  

9784431563518

ISBN 10:   4431563512
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   23 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Sperm Attraction, Activation and Acrosome Reaction.- 1 Sperm Chemotaxis: The First Authentication Events Between Conspecific Gametes Prior to Fertilization (Manabu Yoshida).- 2 Respiratory CO2 Mediates Sperm Chemotaxis in Squids (Noritaka Hirohashi).- 3 Specific Mechanism of Sperm Storage in Avian Oviducts (Tomohiro Sasanami).- 4 Allurin: Exploring the Activity of a Frog Sperm Chemoattractant in Mammals (Douglas E. Chandler).- 5 Structure, Function and Phylogenetic Consideration of Calaxin (Kazuo Inaba).- 6 Cl- Channels and Transporters in Sperm Physiology (Alberto Darszon).- 7 Equatorin-related Subcellular and Molecular Events During Sperm Priming for Fertilization in Mice (Kiyotaka Toshimori).- 8 Acrosome Reaction-mediated Motility Initiation that is Critical for the Internal Fertilization of Urodele Amphibians (Akihiko Watanabe).- 9 Analysis of the Mechanism that Brings Protein Disulfide Isomerase-P5 to Inhibit Oxidative Refolding of Lysozyme (Miho Miyakawa).- Part 2 Gametogenesis, Gamete Recognition, Activation, and Evolution.- 10 Effect of Relaxin-like Gonad-Stimulating Substance (GSS) on Gamete Shedding and 1-Methyladenine Production in Starfish Ovaries (Masatoshi Mita).- 11 Incapacity of 1-Methyladenine Production to Relaxin-like Gonad-Stimulating Substance (GSS) in Ca2+-free Seawater-treated Starfish Ovarian Follicle Cells (Masatoshi Mita).- 12 Novel Isoform of Vitellogenin Expressed in Eggs is a Binding Partner of the Sperm Proteases, HrProacrosin and HrSermosin, in the Ascidian Halocynthia roretzi (Hitoshi Sawada).- 13 Actin Cytoskeleton and Fertilization in Starfish Eggs (Luigia Santella).- 14 Focused Proteomics on Egg Membrane Microdomains to Elucidate the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Fertilization in the African Clawed Frog Xenopus laevis (Ken-ichi Sato).- 15 Egg Activation in Polyspermy: Its Molecular Mechanisms and Evolution in Vertebrates (Yasuhiro Iwao ).- 16 ATP Imagingin Xenopus laevis Oocyte (Takashi Ijiri).- 17 Mitochondrial Activation and Nitric Oxide (NO) Release at Fertilization in Echinoderm Eggs (Tatsuma Mohri).- 18 Functional Roles of Spe Genes in the Male Germline During Reproduction of Caenorhabditis elegans (Hitoshi Nishimura).- 19 Origin of Female/Male Gender as Deduced by the Mating Type Loci of the Colonial Volvocalean Greens (Hisayoshi Nozaki).- Part 3 Allorecognition in Male–Female Interaction.- 20 Allorecognition and Lysin Systems During Ascidian Fertilization (Hitoshi Sawada).- 21 Self-incompatibility in the Brassicaceae (Megumi Iwano).- 22 Signalling Events in Pollen Acceptance or Rejection in the Arabidopsis Species (Daphne R. Goring).- 23 Papaver rhoeas S-Determinants and the Signaling Networks they Trigger (Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong ).- 24 S-RNase-based Self-incompatibility in Petunia: A Complex Non-self Recognition System Between Pollen and Pistil (Teh-hui Kao).- 25 Self-incompatibility System ofIpomoea trifida, a Wild-type Sweet Potato (Tohru Tsuchiya).- Part 4 Male–Female Interaction and Gamete Fusion.- 26 Profiling the GCS1-based Gamete Fusion Mechanism (Toshiyuki Mori).- 27 Fertilization Mechanisms of the Rodent Malarial Parasite Plasmodium berghei (Makoto Hirai).- 28 Sexual Reproduction of a Unicellular Charophycean Alga, Closterium peracerosum-strogosum-littorale Complex (Hiroyuki Sekimoto).- 29 Fertilization of Brown Algae: Flagellar Function in Phototaxis and Chemotaxis (Taizo Motomura ).- 30 Gene and Protein Expression Profiles in Rice Gametes and Zygotes: A Cue for Understanding the Mechanisms of Gametic and Early Zygotic Development in Angiosperms (Takashi Okamoto).- 31 Role of CD9 in Sperm-Egg Fusion and Virus-induced Cell Fusion in Mammals (Kenji Miyado).- 32 The Mechanism of Sperm-Egg Fusion in Mouse and the Involvement of IZUMO1 (Naokazu Inoue).- 33 A ZP2 Cleavage Model of Gamete Recognition and the Post-fertilization Block to Polyspermy (Jurrien Dean).- 34 Involvement of Carbohydrate Residues of the Zona Pellucida in In Vitro Sperm Recognition in Pigs and Cattle (Naoto Yonezawa).- Part 5 Organella, Proteolysis, and New Techniques.- 35 The Role of Peroxisomes in Plant Reproductive Processes (Shoji Mano).- 36 Regulation of Vacuole-mediated Programmed Cell Death During Innate Immunity and Reproductive Development in Plants (Tomoko Koyano).- 37 Sperm Proteasomes as a Putative Egg Coat Lysin in Mammals (Peter Sutovsky).- 38 Germline Transformation in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis (Yasunori Sasakura).- BM Index.  

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