Bookedited by Kiho Lee.
Clearance of maternal RNAs : not a Mummy's embryo anymore / Antonio Marco -- Link of zygotic genome activation and cell cycle control / Boyang Liu and Jörg Grosshans -- Role of microRNAs in zygotic genome activation : modulation of mRNA during embryogenesis / Alessandro Rosa and Ali H. Brivanlou -- Gene expression analysis in mammalian oocytes and embryos by quantitative real-time RT-PCR / Kyeoung-Hwa Kim, Su-Yeon Lee, and Kyung-Ah Lee -- Detection of miRNA in mammalian oocytes and embryos / Malavika K. Adur, Benjamin J. Hale, and Jason W. Ross -- Detection of bidirectional promoter-derived lncRNAs from small-scale samples using pre-amplification-free directional RNA-seq Method / Nobuhiko Hamazaki, Kinichi Nakashima, Katsuhiko Hayashi, and Takuya Imamura -- Detection and characterization of small noncoding RNAs in mouse gametes and embryos prior to zygotic genome activation / Jesús García-López, Eduardo Larriba, and Jesús del Mazo -- Purification of zygotically transcribed RNA through metabolic labeling of early zebrafish embryos / Patricia Heyn and Karla M. Neugebauer -- RNA FISH to study zygotic genome activation in early mouse embryos / Noémie Ranisavljevic, Ikuhiro Okamoto, Edith Heard, and Katia Ancelin -- Detection of RNA polymerase II in mouse embryos during zygotic genome activation using immunocytochemistry / Irina O. Bogolyubova and Dmitry S. Bogolyubov -- Immunological staining of global changes in DNA methylation in the early mammalian embryo / Yan Li and Christopher O'Neill -- Single cell restriction enzyme-based analysis of methylation at genomic imprinted regions in preimplantation mouse embryos / Ka Yi Ling, Lih Feng Cheow, Stephen R. Quake, William F. Burkholder, and Daniel M. Messerschmidt -- Use of chemicals to inhibit DNA replication, transcription, and protein synthesis to study zygotic genome activation / Kyungjun Uh and Kiho Lee -- Targeted gene knockdown in early embryos using siRNA / Lu Zhang and Zoltan Machaty -- Generating mouse models using zygote electroporation of nucleases (ZEN) technology with high efficiency and throughput / Wenbo Wang, Yingfan Zhang, and Haoyi Wang -- CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene targeting during embryogenesis in swine / Junghyun Ryu and Kiho Lee -- Potential involvement of SCF-complex in zygotic genome activation during early bovine embryo development / Veronika Benesova, Veronika Kinterova, Jiri Kanka, and Tereza Toralova -- Use of histone K-M mutants for the analysis of transcriptional regulation in mouse zygotes / Keisuke Aoshima, Takashi Kimura, and Yuki Okada.