Molecular control of the oocyte to embryo transition

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1436, 2003, Pages 1381-1388

  Knowles, Barbara B ^a   Evsikov, Alexei V ^a   De Vries, Wilhelmine N ^a   Peaston, Anne E ^a   Solter, Davor ^b  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embryo; Oocyte; Reprogramming; Retrotransposons; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0042856394     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1330     Document Type: Review

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