Asymmetrical allocation of mitochondrial DNA to blastomeres during the first two cleavages in mouse embryos

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1247-1253

  Kameyama, Yuichi ^a   Ohnishi, Hidehisa ^a   Shimoi, Gaku ^a   Hashizume, Ryoichi ^a   Ito, Masao ^a   Smith, Lawrence C ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

ATP; early cleavage; mtDNA copy number

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CYTOPLASM; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL SIZE; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CYTOKINESIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIA; OOCYTES;

EID: 77957746340     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD10076     Document Type: Article

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