Lessons for inductive germline determination

Epiblast Stem Cell-Based System Reveals Reprogramming Synergy of Germline Factors

(2012) Astrid Gillich et al.   Cell Stem Cell

The Germ Cell Determinant Blimp1 Is Not Required for Derivation of Pluripotent Stem Cells

(2012) Siqin Bao et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Combinatorial control of cell fate and reprogramming in the mammalian germline

(2012) Erna Magnúsdóttir et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Autonomy in specification of primordial germ cells and their passive translocation in the sea urchin

(2012) M. Yajima et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Xenopus Nanos1 is required to prevent endoderm gene expression and apoptosis in primordial germ cells

(2012) F. Lai et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Eukaryotic initiation factor 4E-3 is essential for meiotic chromosome segregation, cytokinesis and male fertility in Drosophila

(2012) G. Hernandez et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Ectopic formation of primordial germ cells by transplantation of the germ plasm: Direct evidence for germ cell determinant in Xenopus

(2012) Haru Tada et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

An RNAi Screen Reveals Intestinal Regulators of Branching Morphogenesis, Differentiation, and Stem Cell Proliferation in Planarians

(2012) David J. Forsthoefel et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

The Hydra genome: insights, puzzles and opportunities for Developmental Biologists

(2012) Robert E. Steele   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Temperature dependence of the reproduction niche and its relevance for plant species distributions

(2012) Olga Bykova et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Next generation organelles: Structure and role of germ granules in the germline

(2012) Ming Gao et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

The diverse functions of germline P-granules inCaenorhabditis elegans

(2012) Ekaterina Voronina   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Control of ground-state pluripotency by allelic regulation of Nanog

(2012) Yusuke Miyanari et al.   NATURE

piRNA surveillance in the C. elegans germline

(2012) Hannah Stower   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Interaction between NANOS2 and the CCR4-NOT Deadenylation Complex Is Essential for Male Germ Cell Development in Mouse

(2012) Atsushi Suzuki et al.   PLoS One

Sex determination strategies in 2012: towards a common regulatory model?

(2012) Roxani Angelopoulou et al.   Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Function, Targets, and Evolution of Caenorhabditis elegans piRNAs

(2012) M. P. Bagijn et al.   SCIENCE

LIN28 Is Selectively Expressed by Primordial and Pre-Meiotic Germ Cells in the Human Fetal Ovary

(2012) Andrew J. Childs et al.   STEM CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT

Uniting Germline and Stem Cells: The Function of Piwi Proteins and the piRNA Pathway in Diverse Organisms

(2011) Celina Juliano et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Germline Specification and Function in Plants

(2011) Frédéric Berger et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Molecular evolution of vertebrate sex-determining genes

(2011) Shuuji Mawaribuchi et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

The DEAD-box RNA helicase Vasa functions in embryonic mitotic progression in the sea urchin

(2011) M. Yajima et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Protein Arginine Methyltransferase Prmt5-Mep50 Methylates Histones H2A and H4 and the Histone Chaperone Nucleoplasmin inXenopus laevisEggs

(2011) Carola Wilczek et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A Germ Cell-specific Gene,Prmt5, Works in Somatic Cell Reprogramming

(2011) Go Nagamatsu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Non-adaptive origins of interactome complexity

(2011) Ariel Fernández et al.   NATURE

DEAD-box RNA helicase Belle/DDX3 and the RNA interference pathway promote mitotic chromosome segregation

(2011) J. W. Pek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of the germ line–soma relationship in vertebrate embryos

(2011) Andrew D Johnson et al.   REPRODUCTION

Divergent RNA-binding Proteins, DAZL and VASA, Induce Meiotic Progression in Human Germ Cells Derived in Vitro

(2011) Jose V. Medrano et al.   STEM CELLS

Long-Lost Relative Claims Orphan Gene: oskar in a Wasp

(2011) Cassandra G. Extavour   PLoS Genetics

The Phylogenetic Origin of oskar Coincided with the Origin of Maternally Provisioned Germ Plasm and Pole Cells at the Base of the Holometabola

(2011) Jeremy A. Lynch et al.   PLoS Genetics

Vasa genes: Emerging roles in the germ line and in multipotent cells

(2010) Eric A. Gustafson et al.   BIOESSAYS

A Role for Vasa in Regulating Mitotic Chromosome Condensation in Drosophila

(2010) Jun Wei Pek et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mutation of Eif4g3, encoding a eukaryotic translation initiation factor, causes male infertility and meiotic arrest of mouse spermatocytes

(2010) F. Sun et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Post-translational regulation by gustavus contributes to selective Vasa protein accumulation in multipotent cells during embryogenesis

(2010) Eric A. Gustafson et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Epigenetic Transitions in Germ Cell Development and Meiosis

(2010) Satya K. Kota et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

MVH in piRNA processing and gene silencing of retrotransposons

(2010) S. Kuramochi-Miyagawa et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Prmt5 is essential for early mouse development and acts in the cytoplasm to maintain ES cell pluripotency

(2010) W.-W. Tee et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Targets and dynamics of promoter DNA methylation during early mouse development

(2010) Julie Borgel et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Global Chromatin Architecture Reflects Pluripotency and Lineage Commitment in the Early Mouse Embryo

(2010) Kashif Ahmed et al.   PLoS One

NANOS2 interacts with the CCR4-NOT deadenylation complex and leads to suppression of specific RNAs

(2010) Atsushi Suzuki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Germ cell specification in mice: signaling, transcription regulation, and epigenetic consequences

(2010) Mitinori Saitou et al.   REPRODUCTION

Genome-Wide Reprogramming in the Mouse Germ Line Entails the Base Excision Repair Pathway

(2010) P. Hajkova et al.   SCIENCE

Germ Cell Genes and Cancer

(2010) X. Wu et al.   SCIENCE

Cytoplasmic Partitioning of P Granule Components Is Not Required to Specify the Germline in C. elegans

(2010) C. M. Gallo et al.   SCIENCE

Ectopic Expression of Germline Genes Drives Malignant Brain Tumor Growth in Drosophila

(2010) A. Janic et al.   SCIENCE

A Signaling Principle for the Specification of the Germ Cell Lineage in Mice

(2009) Yasuhide Ohinata et al.   CELL

Bucky Ball Organizes Germ Plasm Assembly in Zebrafish

(2009) Franck Bontems et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Germ cell specification in mice

(2009) Mitinori Saitou   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

An expanding job description for Blimp-1/PRDM1

(2009) Elizabeth K Bikoff et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Self-renewing epiblast stem cells exhibit continual delineation of germ cells with epigenetic reprogramming in vitro

(2009) K. Hayashi et al.   DEVELOPMENT

LIN28 lets BLIMP1 Take the Right Course

(2009) Martin M. Matzuk   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Vasa promotes Drosophila germline stem cell differentiation by activating mei-P26 translation by directly interacting with a (U)-rich motif in its 3' UTR

(2009) N. Liu et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

The molecular machinery of germ line specification

(2009) Ben Ewen-Campen et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

The avian Z-linked gene DMRT1 is required for male sex determination in the chicken

(2009) Craig A. Smith et al.   NATURE

Making a commitment: cell lineage allocation and axis patterning in the early mouse embryo

(2009) Sebastian J. Arnold et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Co-occupancy of two Pumilio molecules on a single hunchback NRE

(2009) Y. K. Gupta et al.   RNA

Mode and tempo in environmental sex determination in vertebrates

(2009) David Crews et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Regulation and Functions of Blimp-1 in T and B Lymphocytes

(2008) Gislâine Martins et al.   Annual Review of Immunology

PRDM14 suppresses expression of differentiation marker genes in human embryonic stem cells

(2008) Norihiro Tsuneyoshi et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Evolutionary origin and phylogenetic analysis of the novel oocyte-specific eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E in Tetrapoda

(2008) Alexei V. Evsikov et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Bucky ball functions in Balbiani body assembly and animal–vegetal polarity in the oocyte and follicle cell layer in zebrafish

(2008) Florence L. Marlow et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Flatworm stem cells and the germ line: Developmental and evolutionary implications of macvasa expression in Macrostomum lignano

(2008) Daniela Pfister et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Blimp1: A conserved transcriptional repressor critical for differentiation of many tissues

(2008) Shinu A. John et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Complex genome-wide transcription dynamics orchestrated by Blimp1 for the specification of the germ cell lineage in mice

(2008) K. Kurimoto et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Germ cell specific protein VASA is over-expressed in epithelial ovarian cancer and disrupts DNA damage-induced G2 checkpoint

(2008) Hisashi Hashimoto et al.   GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY

Normal Germ Line Establishment in Mice Carrying a Deletion of the Ifitm/Fragilis Gene Family Cluster

(2008) U. C. Lange et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

One PRDM is not enough for germ cell development

(2008) Elizabeth K Bikoff et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Critical function of Prdm14 for the establishment of the germ cell lineage in mice

(2008) Masashi Yamaji et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Reprogramming Primordial Germ Cells into Pluripotent Stem Cells

(2008) Gabriela Durcova-Hills et al.   PLoS One

A W-linked DM-domain gene, DM-W, participates in primary ovary development in Xenopus laevis

(2008) S. Yoshimoto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A comprehensive, non-invasive visualization of primordial germ cell development in mice by the Prdm1-mVenus and Dppa3-ECFP double transgenic reporter

(2008) Yasuhide Ohinata et al.   REPRODUCTION

Conserved themes in small-RNA-mediated transposon control

(2008) Angélique Girard et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Vasa protein expression is restricted to the small micromeres of the sea urchin, but is inducible in other lineages early in development

(2007) Ekaterina Voronina et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY