In germ cells of mouse embryonic ovaries, the decision to enter meiosis precedes premeiotic DNA replication

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1430-1434

  Baltus, Andrew E ^a,b   Menke, Douglas B ^a,b   Hu, Yueh Chiang ^a,b   Goodheart, Mary L ^a,b   Carpenter, Anne E ^b   De Rooij, Dirk G ^c   Page, David C ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; LIFE CYCLE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRA8 GENE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OOGENESIS; OVARY; PROTEINS; TESTIS;

SYNAPSIS;

EID: 33751536886     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1919     Document Type: Article

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