Oocyte family trees: Old branches or new stems?

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Woods, Dori C ^a,b   Telfer, Evelyn E ^c   Tilly, Jonathan L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVULATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE;

AGING; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84864634106     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002848     Document Type: Article

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