Sperm entry position provides a surface marker for the first cleavage plane of the mouse zygote

Genesis

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 193-198

  Plusa, Berenika ^a,b   Piotrowska, Karolina ^a,b   Zernicka Goetz, Magdalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cleavage; Egg; Mouse; Polarity; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0036203082     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.10027     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Sperm entry point is related to early division of mouse blastomeres
2. 2+ is required for mouse sperm capacitation and fertilization in vitro
3. After fertilisation, sperm surface components remain as a patch in sea urchin and mouse embryos
4. Specification of embryonic axes begins before cleavage in normal mouse development
5. An intermediate state of fertilization involved in internalisation of sperm components
6. Changes in actin distribution during fertilisation of the mouse egg
7. Role for sperm in spatial patterning of the early mouse embryo
8. Blastomeres arising from the first cleavage division have distinguishable fates in normal mouse development