Comparative biology of cAMP-induced germinal vesicle breakdown in marine invertebrate oocytes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 78, Issue 10-11, 2011, Pages 708-725

  Deguchi, Ryusaku ^a   Takeda, Noriyo ^b   Stricker, Stephen A ^c  

^a MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SEA WATER;

ANNELID WORM; ASCIDIACEA; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GAP JUNCTION; GERMINAL VESICLE BREAKDOWN; JELLYFISH; MEIOSIS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEMERTEA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPAWNING;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BLASTODISC; CYCLIC AMP; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; PHYSIOLOGY, COMPARATIVE;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; ASTEROIDEA; BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMERTEA; OPHIUROIDEA; POTAMILLA OCCELATA; SCYPHOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80054765296     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21346     Document Type: Review

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