Epigenetic aspects of fertilization and preimplantation development in mammals: Lessons from the mouse

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 388-404

  Rivera, Roco Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; embryos; epigenetics; gametes; histones

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; RNA;

CELL CYCLE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME IMPRINTING; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; MALE; MICE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77956905991     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2010.482726     Document Type: Review

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