Table of Contents

1. The Physical and Biochemical Properties of the Extracellular Matrix Regulate Cell Fate Jonathon M. Muncie and Valerie M. Weaver 2. Matricellular Proteins: Functional Insights From Non-mammalian Animal Models Josephine C. Adams 3. Collagen Fibril Assembly and Function David F. Holmes, Yinhui Lu, Tobias Starborg and Karl E. Kadler 4. Basement Membranes in Development and Disease Rei Sekiguchi and Kenneth M. Yamada 5. Extracellular Determinants of Arterial Morphogenesis, Growth, and Homeostasis Robert P. Mecham and Francesco Ramirez 6. Structure, Function, and Development of the Tectorial Membrane: An Extracellular Matrix Essential for Hearing Richard J. Goodyear and Guy P. Richardson 7. Extracellular Matrix (ECM) and the Sculpting of Embryonic Tissues Bette J. Dzamba and Douglas W. DeSimone 8. The Fish Egg’s Zona Pellucida Eveline S. Litscher and Paul M. Wassarman 9. Egg-Coat and Zona Pellucida Proteins of Chicken as a Typical Species of Aves Shunsuke Nishio, Hiroki Okumura and Tsukasa Matsuda 10. The Mouse Egg’s Zona Pellucida Paul M. Wassarman and Eveline S. Litscher 11. Conceptus Coats of Marsupials and Monotremes Stephen Frankenberg and Marilyn B. Renfree 12. The Human Egg’s Zona Pellucida Satish K. Gupta 13. Structure of Zona Pellucida Module Proteins Marcel Bokhove and Luca Jovine 14. Egg Coat Proteins Across Metazoan Evolution Emily E. Killingbeck and Willie J. Swanson

About the Author

Eveline Litscher is at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA Paul M. Wassarman, the Series Editor of CTDB since 2007, is Professor in the Dept. Developmental and Regenerative Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Brandeis University where he carried out thesis research in the Graduate Dept. Biochemistry with Professor Nathan O. Kaplan. In 1967 Wassarman joined the Division of Structural Studies at the MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England as a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellow with Sir John C. Kendrew. In 1972 he joined the faculty of the Dept. Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School and in 1986 moved to the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology where he was Chair of the Dept. Cell and Developmental Biology and Adjunct Professor in the Dept. Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine. In 1996 he moved to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he was the Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professorial Chair of the Dept. Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. Wassarman has published more than 200 research papers and reviews, dealing primarily with mammalian oogenesis, fertilization, and early embryogenesis.