This book contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants, where many plant and animal reproductive biologists gathered to discuss their recent progress in investigating the shared mechanisms and factors involved in sexual reproduction. This now is the first book that reviews recent progress in almost all fields of plant and animal fertilization. It was recently reported that the self-sterile mechanism of a hermaphroditic marine invertebrate (ascidian) is very similar to the self-incompatibility system in flowering plants. It was also found that a male factor expressed in the sperm cells of flowering plants is involved in gamete fusion not only of plants but also of animals and parasites. These discoveries have led to the consideration that the core mechanisms or factors involved in sexual reproduction may be shared by animals, plants and unicellular organisms. This valuable book is highly useful for reproductive biologists as well as for biological scientists outside this field in understanding the current progress of reproductive biology.
Author(s): Hitoshi Sawada, Naokazu Inoue, Megumi Iwano (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Japan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 480
Tags: Developmental Biology; Plant Sciences; Cell Biology
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sperm Chemotaxis: The First Authentication Events Between Conspecific Gametes Before Fertilization....Pages 3-11
Respiratory CO 2 Mediates Sperm Chemotaxis in Squids....Pages 13-21
Specific Mechanism of Sperm Storage in Avian Oviducts....Pages 23-29
Allurin: Exploring the Activity of a Frog Sperm Chemoattractant in Mammals....Pages 31-48
Structure, Function, and Phylogenetic Consideration of Calaxin....Pages 49-57
Cl − Channels and Transporters in Sperm Physiology....Pages 59-84
Equatorin-Related Subcellular and Molecular Events During Sperm Priming for Fertilization in Mice....Pages 85-95
Acrosome Reaction-Mediated Motility Initiation That Is Critical for the Internal Fertilization of Urodele Amphibians....Pages 97-103
Analysis of the Mechanism That Brings Protein Disulfide Isomerase-P5 to Inhibit Oxidative Refolding of Lysozyme....Pages 105-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Effect of Relaxin-Like Gonad-Stimulating Substance on Gamete Shedding and 1-Methyladenine Production in Starfish Ovaries....Pages 115-122
Incapacity of 1-Methyladenine Production to Relaxin-Like Gonad-Stimulating Substance in Ca 2+ -Free Seawater-Treated Starfish Ovarian Follicle Cells....Pages 123-129
Novel Isoform of Vitellogenin Expressed in Eggs Is a Binding Partner of the Sperm Proteases, HrProacrosin and HrSpermosin, in the Ascidian Halocynthia roretzi ....Pages 131-139
Actin Cytoskeleton and Fertilization in Starfish Eggs....Pages 141-155
Focused Proteomics on Egg Membrane Microdomains to Elucidate the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Fertilization in the African Clawed Frog Xenopus laevis ....Pages 157-170
Egg Activation in Polyspermy: Its Molecular Mechanisms and Evolution in Vertebrates....Pages 171-180
ATP Imaging in Xenopus laevis Oocytes....Pages 181-186
Mitochondrial Activation and Nitric Oxide (NO) Release at Fertilization in Echinoderm Eggs....Pages 187-197
Functional Roles of spe Genes in the Male Germline During Reproduction of Caenorhabditis elegans ....Pages 199-213
Origin of Female/Male Gender as Deduced by the Mating-Type Loci of the Colonial Volvocalean Greens....Pages 215-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Allorecognition and Lysin Systems During Ascidian Fertilization....Pages 231-244
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Self-Incompatibility in the Brassicaceae....Pages 245-254
Signaling Events in Pollen Acceptance or Rejection in the Arabidopsis Species....Pages 255-271
Papaver rhoeas S -Determinants and the Signaling Networks They Trigger....Pages 273-287
S-RNase-Based Self-Incompatibility in Petunia : A Complex Non-Self Recognition System Between Pollen and Pistil....Pages 289-303
Self-Incompatibility System of Ipomoea trifida , a Wild-Type Sweet Potato....Pages 305-325
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Profiling the GCS1-Based Gamete Fusion Mechanism....Pages 329-335
Fertilization Mechanisms of the Rodent Malarial Parasite Plasmodium berghei ....Pages 337-344
Sexual Reproduction of a Unicellular Charophycean Alga, Closterium peracerosum-strogosum-littorale Complex....Pages 345-357
Fertilization of Brown Algae: Flagellar Function in Phototaxis and Chemotaxis....Pages 359-367
Gene and Protein Expression Profiles in Rice Gametes and Zygotes: A Cue for Understanding the Mechanisms of Gametic and Early Zygotic Development in Angiosperms....Pages 369-382
Role of CD9 in Sperm–Egg Fusion and Virus-Induced Cell Fusion in Mammals....Pages 383-391
The Mechanism of Sperm–Egg Fusion in Mouse and the Involvement of IZUMO1....Pages 393-399
A ZP2 Cleavage Model of Gamete Recognition and the Postfertilization Block to Polyspermy....Pages 401-408
Involvement of Carbohydrate Residues of the Zona Pellucida Zona Pellucida in In Vitro Sperm Recognition in Pigs and Cattle....Pages 409-415
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
The Role of Peroxisomes in Plant Reproductive Processes....Pages 419-429
Regulation of Vacuole-Mediated Programmed Cell Death During Innate Immunity and Reproductive Development in Plants....Pages 431-440
Sperm Proteasome as a Putative Egg Coat Lysin in Mammals....Pages 441-463
Germline Transformation in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis ....Pages 465-473
Back Matter....Pages 475-480
