Evolution of the egg: New findings and challenges

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages 109-125

  Claw, Katrina G ^a   Swanson, Willie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

cumulus cells; fertilization; oocyte; rapid evolution; sperm; zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CD81 ANTIGEN; CD9 ANTIGEN; CHEMOATTRACTANT; DNA; EGG PROTEIN; HYALURONIC ACID; INTEGRIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTEOGLYCAN; RNA; SIALIC ACID; TETRASPANIN;

BINDING SITE; BIRD; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CUMULUS CELL; DROSOPHILA; EGG; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDIDYMIS; EVOLUTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; GLYCOSYLATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INVERTEBRATE; MACACA RADIATA; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; POLYSPERMY; PROPHASE; PROSTATE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; PSEUDOGENE; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; REPTILE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEA URCHIN; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; UBIQUITINATION; VERTEBRATE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; EGG PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; OOCYTES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872456187     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: 1545293X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-090711-163745     Document Type: Review

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