Meiosis in Development and Disease: Volume 151

Meiosis in Development and Disease, Volume 151 in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as The initiation stages of meiosis, The molecular basis and dynamics of meiotic cohesions, and their significance in human infertility, Chromatin, recombination, and the centromeres, Sites and structures that mediate segregation when crossing over calls out sick/Life (or at Least Meiosis) Without Crossing Over, Crossover maturation inefficiency, Non coding RNA mediated gene regulation in meiosis, Short chromosomes in meiotic recombination, Chromatin level changes during meiosis initiation vs. oncogenesis, and much more.

Other sections of note include Chromosomal speciation revisited: Meiotic recombination and synapsis of evolutionary diverged homologs, Recombination suppression at specific chromosome regions, Unwinding during stressful times - mechanisms of helicases in meiotic recombination, Meiotic functions of PCH-2/TRIP13 and HORMADs, Crossover interference, Checkpoint control in meiotic prophase: Idiosyncratic demands require unique characteristics, The breadth of meiotic drive genes and mechanisms across the tree of life, and many more interesting topics.

Autorentext
Francesca Cole, PhD., Associate Professor, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, R. Lee Clark Fellow, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX, USA

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1. Cell polarity in the protist-to-animal transition
   Thibaut Brunet and David S. Booth
2. Context matters: Lessons in epithelial polarity from the Caenorhabditis elegans intestine and other tissues
   Victor F. Naturale, Melissa A. Pickett, and Jessica L. Feldman
3. Polarity and axis formation in the Drosophila female germ line
   Daniel St Johnston
4. Contractile and expansive actin networks in Drosophila: Developmental cell biology controlled by network polarization and higher-order interactions
   Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez and Tony J.C. Harris
5. Cell polarity and extrusion: How to polarize extrusion and extrude misspolarized cells?
   Ralitza Staneva and Romain Levayer
6. The role of polarization and early heterogeneities in the mammalian first cell fate decision
   Adiyant Lamba and Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
7. Polarity in immune cells
   Judith Pineau, Hélène D. Moreau, Ana-Maria Lennon Duménil, and Paolo Pierobon
8. Fat and Dachsous cadherins in mammalian development
   Jennysue Kasiah and Helen McNeill
9. Polarity in breast development and cancer
   Mara K.M. Whitford and Luke McCaffrey
10. Polarity in respiratory development, homeostasis and disease
    Andrew M. Tilston-Lunel and Xaralabos Varelas
11. Polarity in skin development and cancer
    Alexandra Prado-Mantilla and Terry Lechler