Cell Fate in Mammalian Development

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