Cracking the egg: Molecular dynamics and evolutionary aspects of the transition from the fully grown oocyte to embryo

Genes and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 2713-2727

  Evsikov, Alexei V ^a   Graber, Joel H ^a   Brockman, J Michael ^a,b   Hampl, Aleš ^c   Holbrook, Andrea E ^a   Singh, Priyam ^a,b   Eppig, John J ^a   Solter, Davor ^a,d   Knowles, Barbara B ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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

Author keywords

Eukaryotic initiation factor 4E; Gene expression profiling; Maternal effect gene; mRNA stability; Multigene family; Reproductive isolation; Retroelements

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLASTULA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OOCYTES; OVUM; RETROELEMENTS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EUKARYOTA; MUS MUSCULUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33749328105     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1471006     Document Type: Article

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