Cell Fate in Mammalian Development. Current Topics in Developmental Biology Volume 128

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Berenika Plusa and Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis 2. Cell Polarity-Dependent Regulation of Cell Allocation and the First Lineage Specification in the Preimplantation Mouse Embryo Deepak Saini and Yojiro Yamanaka 3. Cell Fate Decisions During Preimplantation Mammalian Development Stephanie Bissiere, Maxime Gasnier, Yanina D. Alvarez and Nicolas Plachta 4. Our First Choice: Cellular and Genetic Underpinnings of Trophectoderm Identity and Differentiation in the Mammalian Embryo Sergio Menchero, Julio G. Sainz de Aja and Miguel Manzanares 5. Primitive Endoderm Differentiation: From Specification to Epithelialization Cécilia Bassalert, Lorena V. Estrella and Claire Chazaud 6. The Regulative Nature of Mammalian Embryos Katarzyna Klimczewska, Anna Kasperczuk and Aneta Suwinska 7. States and Origins of Mammalian Embryonic Pluripotency In Vivo and in a Dish Priscila Ramos-Ibeas, Jennifer Nichols and Ramiro Alberio 8. Capturing and Interconverting Embryonic Cell Fates in a Dish Alyson Lokken, Jennifer Watts, Alexandra Moauro and Amy Ralston 9. From Germline to Soma: Epigenetic Dynamics in the Mouse Preimplantation Embryo Michelle K.Y. Seah and Daniel M. Messerschmidt 10. Pre-gastrula Development of Non-eutherian Mammals Stephen Frankenberg 11. Pre-implantation Development of Domestic Animals Anna Piliszek and Zofia E. Madeja 12. Human Pre-gastrulation Development Sissy E. Wamaitha and Kathy K. Niakan 12. The Mitochondria and the Regulation of Cell Fitness During Early Mammalian Development Ana Lima, Jörg Burgstaller, Juan M. Sanchez-Nieto and Tristan A. Rodríguez 13. The Head's Tale: Anterior-Posterior Axis Formation in the Mouse Embryo Matthew J. Stower and Shankar Srinivas