Oocyte differentiation is genetically dissociable from meiosis in mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 877-883

  Dokshin, Gregoriy A ^a,b   Baltus, Andrew E ^a,b   Eppig, John J ^c   Page, David C ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; STRA8 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GERMINAL VESICLE; HISTOLOGY; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; POLAR BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MATURITY; SISTER CHROMATID; SUPEROVULATION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; WILD TYPE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION; PROTEINS;

MUS; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 84881021958     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2672     Document Type: Article

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