The mitochondrial bottleneck occurs without reduction of mtDNA content in female mouse germ cells

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 386-390

  Cao, Liqin ^a,b   Shitara, Hiroshi ^a   Horii, Takuro ^c   Nagao, Yasumitsu ^c   Imai, Hiroshi ^c   Abe, Kuniya ^d   Hara, Takahiko ^a   Hayashi, Jun Ichi ^b   Yonekawa, Hiromichi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA CONTENT; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC DISORDER; GERM CELL; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OOGENESIS; OVUM;

MUS;

EID: 33847248347     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1970     Document Type: Article

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