Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Section I Oocyte and Early Embryo 1
1 Transcription in the Xenopus Oocyte Nucleus 3 Joseph G. Gall
2 RNA Localization during Oogenesis in Xenopus laevis 16 James O. Deshler
3 From Oocyte to Fertilizable Egg: Regulated mRNA Translation and the Control of Maternal Gene Expression 38 Chad E. Cragle & Angus M. MacNicol
4 Polarity of Xenopus Oocytes and Early Embryos 60 Malgorzata Kloc
5 Germ-Cell Specification in Xenopus 75 Mary Lou King
Section II Midblastula Transition, Gastrulation, and Neurulation 101
6 The Xenopus Embryo as a Model System to Study Asymmetric Furrowing in Vertebrate Epithelial Cells 103 Jacek Z. Kubiak, Isabelle Chartrain, & Jean-Pierre Tassan
7 Induction and Differentiation of the Xenopus Ciliated Embryonic Epidermis 112 Marie Cibois, Pierluigi Scerbo, Virginie Thomé, Andrea Pasini, & Laurent Kodjabachian
8 Wnt Signaling during Early Xenopus Development 130 François Fagotto
9 Neural Tube Closure in Xenopus 163 Hitoshi Morita, Makoto Suzuki, & Naoto Ueno
Section III Metamorphosis and Organogenesis 187
10 Primordial Germ Cell Migration 189 Aliaksandr Dzementsei & Tomas Pieler
11 Development of Gonads, Sex Determination, and Sex Reversal in Xenopus 199 Rafał P. Piprek & Jacek Z. Kubiak
12 The Xenopus Pronephros: A Kidney Model Making Leaps toward Understanding Tubule Development 215 Rachel K. Miller, Moonsup Lee, & Pierre D. McCrea
13 Development of Neural Tissues in Xenopus laevis 239 William A. Muñoz, Amy K. Sater, & Pierre D. McCrea
14 The Development of the Immune System in Xenopus 264 Louis Du Pasquier
15 Neural Regeneration in Xenopus Tadpoles during Metamorphosis 293 Mauricio Moreno, Karina Tapia, & Juan Larrain
Section IV Novel Techniques and Approaches 309
16 Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Xenopus laevis Oocyte Plasma Membrane 311 Francesco Orsini
17 Size Scaling of Subcellular Organelles and Structures in Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis 325 Lisa J. Edens & Daniel L. Levy
18 A Model for Retinal Regeneration in Xenopus 346 Masasuke Araki
19 The Xenopus Model for Regeneration Research 368 Ying Chen & Gufa Lin
20 Genomics and Genome Engineering in Xenopus 383 Léna Vouillot, Aurore Thélie, Thibault Scalvenzi, & Nicolas Pollet
Index 403