Sexual reproduction in animals and plants [electronic resource] / Edited by Hitoshi Sawada, Naokazu Inoue & Megumi Iwano.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sperm chemotaxis : the first authentication events between conspecific gametes before fertilization / Manabu Yoshida -- Respiratory CO₂ mediates sperm chemotaxis in squids / Noritaka Hirohashi, Yoko Iwata, Warwick H.H. Sauer, and Yasutaka Kakiuchi -- Specific mechanism of sperm storage in avian oviducts / Mei Matsuzaki, Gen Hiyama, Shusei Mizushima, Kogiku Shiba, Kazuo Inaba, and Tomohiro Sasanami -- Allurin : exploring the activity of a frog sperm chemoattractant in mammals / Lindsey Burnett, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Catherine Washburn, Allan Bieber, and Douglas E. Chandler -- Structure, function, and phylogenetic consideration of calaxin / Kazuo Inaba, Katsutoshi Mizuno, and Kogiku Shiba -- Cl⁻ channels and transporters in sperm physiology / C.L. Treviño, G. Orta, D. Figueiras-Fierro, J.L. De la Vega-Beltran, G. Ferreira, E. Balderas, O. José, and A. Darszon -- Equatorin-related subcellular and molecular events during sperm priming for fertilization in mice / Chizuru Ito, Kenji Yamatoya, and Kiyotaka Toshimori -- Acrosome reaction-mediated motility initiation that is critical for the internal fertilization of urodele amphibians / Eriko Takayama-Watanabe, Tomoe Takahashi, Misato Yokoe, and Akihiko Watanabe -- Analysis of the mechanism that brings protein disulfide isomerase-P5 to inhibit oxidative refolding of lysozyme / Miho Miyakawa, Shuntaro Shigihara, Gosuke Zukeran, Tetsutaro Tomioka, Tasuku Yoshino, and Kuniko Akama -- Effect of relaxin-like gonad-stimulating substance on gamete shedding and 1-methyladenine production in starfish ovaries / Masatoshi Mita, Yuki Takeshige, and Masaru Nakamura -- Incapacity of 1-methyladenine production to relaxin-like gonad-stimulating substance in Ca²-free seawater-treated starfish ovarian follicle cells / Miho Watanabe, Kazutoshi Yamamoto, and Masatoshi Mita -- Novel isoform of vitellogenin expressed in eggs is a binding partner of the sperm proteases, HrProacrosin and HrSpermosin, in the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi / Mari Akasaka, Koichi H. Kato, Ken Kitajima, and Hitoshi Sawada -- Actin cytoskeleton and fertilization in starfish eggs / Luigia Santella, Nunzia Limatola, and Jong Tai Chun -- Focused proteomics on egg membrane microdomains to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms of fertilization in the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis / Ken-ichi Sato, A.K.M. Mahbub Hasan, and Takashi W. Ijiri -- Egg activation in polyspermy : its molecular mechanisms and evolution in vertebrates / Yasuhiro Iwao -- ATP imaging in Xenopus laevis oocytes / Takashi W. Ijiri, Jun-ichi Kishikawa, Hiromi Imamura, Yasuhiro Iwao, Ken Yokoyama, and Ken-ichi Sato -- Mitochondrial activation and nitric oxide (NO) release at fertilization in echinoderm eggs / Tatsuma Mohri and Keiichiro Kyozuka -- Functional roles of spe genes in the male germline during reproduction of Caenorhabditis elegans / Hitoshi Nishimura, Tatsuya Tajima, Skye Comstra, and Steven W. L'Hernault. Origin of female/male gender as deduced by the mating-type loci of the colonial volvocalean greens / Hisayoshi Nozaki -- Allorecognition and lysin systems during ascidian fertilization / Hitoshi Sawada, Kazunori Yamamoto, Kei Otsuka, Takako Saito, Akira Yamaguchi, Masako Mino, Mari Akasaka, Yoshito Harada, and Lixy Yamada -- Self-incompatibility in the Brassicaceae / Megumi Iwano, Kanae Ito, Hiroko Shimosato-Asano, Kok-Song Lai, and Seiji Takayama -- Signaling events in pollen acceptance or rejection in the Arabidopsis species / Emily Indriolo, Darya Safavian, and Daphne R. Goring -- Papaver rhoeas S-determinants and the signaling networks they trigger / Veronica E. Franklin-Tong -- S-RNase-based self-incompatibility in petunia : a complex non-self recognition system between pollen and pistil / Penglin Sun, Justin Stephen Williams, Shu Li, and Teh-hui Kao -- Self-incompatibility system of Ipomoea trifida, a wild-type sweet potato / Tohru Tsuchiya -- Profiling the GCS1-based gamete fusion mechanism / Toshiyuki Mori -- Fertilization mechanisms of the rodent malarial parasite Plasmodium berghei / Makoto Hirai -- Sexual reproduction of a unicellular charophycean alga, Closterium peracerosum-strogosum-littorale complex / Hiroyuki Sekimoto, Yuki Tsuchikane, and Jun Abe -- Fertilization of brown algae : flagellar function in phototaxis and chemotaxis / Gang Fu, Nana Kinoshita, Chikako Nagasato, and Taizo Motomura -- Gene and protein expression profiles in rice gametes and zygotes : a cue for understanding the mechanisms of gametic and early zygotic development in angiosperms / Takashi Okamoto -- Role of CD9 in sperm-egg fusion and virus-induced cell fusion in mammals / Keiichi Yoshida, Natsuko Kawano, Yuichiroh Harada, and Kenji Miyado -- The mechanism of sperm-egg fusion in mouse and the involvement of IZUMO1 / Naokazu Inoue -- A ZP2 cleavage model of gamete recognition and the postfertilization block to polyspermy / Jurrien Dean -- Involvement of carbohydrate residues of the zona pellucida in in vitro sperm recognition in pigs and cattle / Naoto Yonezawa -- The role of peroxisomes in plant reproductive processes / Shino Goto-Yamada, Shoji Mano, and Mikio Nishimura -- Regulation of vacuole-mediated programmed cell death during innate immunity and reproductive development in plants / Tomoko Koyano, Takamitsu Kurusu, Shigeru Hanamata, and Kazuyuki Kuchitsu -- Sperm proteasome as a putative egg coat lysin in mammals / Edward Miles and Peter Sutovsky -- Germline transformation in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis / Yasunori Sasakura.

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.