Restarting life: Fertilization and the transition from meiosis to mitosis

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 549-562

  Clift, Dean ^a   Schuh, Melina ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM CELL; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SISTER CHROMATID; SPERM; ZYGOTE;

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; OVUM; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84883158277     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3643     Document Type: Review

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