The physical and biochemical properties of the extracellular matrix regulate cell fate / Jonathon M. Muncie and Valerie M. Weaver -- Matricellular proteins : functional insights from non-mammalian animal models / Josephine C. Adams -- Collagen fibril assembly and function / David F. Holmes, Yinhui Lu, Tobias Starborg, and Karl E. Kadler -- Basement membranes in developmet and disease / Rei Sekiguchi and Kenneth M. Yamada -- Extracellular determinants of arterial morphogenesis, growth, and homeostasis / Robert P. Mecham and Francesco Ramirez -- Structure, function and development of the tectorial membrane / Richard J. Goodyear and Guy P. Richardson -- Extracellular matrix (ECM) and the sculpting of embryonic tissues / Bette J. Dzamba and Douglas W. DeSimone -- The fish egg's zona pellucida / Eveline S. Litscher and Paul M. Wassarman -- Egg-coat and zona pellucida proteins of chicken as a typical species of aves / Shunsuke Nishio, Hiroki Okumura, and Tsukasa Matsuda -- The mouse egg's zona pellucida / Paul M. Wassarman and Eveline S. Litscher -- Conceptus coats of marsupials and monotremes / Stephen Frankenberg and Marilyn B. Renfree -- The human egg's zona pellucida / Satish K. Gupta -- Structure of zona pellucida module proteins / Marcel Bokhove and Luca Jovine -- Egg coat proteins across metazoan evolution / Emily E. Killingbeck and Willie J. Swanson.