An evolutionary perspective on adult female germline stem cell function from flies to humans

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-32

  Woods, Doric ^a,b   Tilly, Jonathanl ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

germline stem cell; human; oocyte; oogenesis; oogonial stem cell; ovary

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; FISH; FOLLICLE STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HUMAN; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOGONIAL STEM CELL; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURIFICATION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84872388501     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1331794     Document Type: Article

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