A metaphase pause: Hormone-induced maturation progresses through a long pause at the first meiotic metaphase in oocytes of the starfish, Pisaster ochraceus

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 763-771

  Yamamoto, Kenya ^a,b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Meiotic cell cycle; Metaphase; Oocyte maturation; Starfish

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTERIAS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; FERTILIZATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; SPINDLE CELL;

ANIMALIA; ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; PISASTER; PISASTER OCHRACEUS;

EID: 0030732637     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1997.t01-5-00012.x     Document Type: Article

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