From primordial germ cells to primordial follicles: a review and visual representation of early ovarian development in mice

Germ stem cells are active in postnatal mouse ovary under physiological conditions

(2016) Kun Guo et al.   MOLECULAR HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Aged mouse ovaries possess rare premeiotic germ cells that can generate oocytes following transplantation into a young host environment

(2016) Yuichi Niikura et al.   Aging-US

CYP26B1 promotes male germ cell differentiation by suppressing STRA8-dependent meiotic and STRA8-independent mitotic pathways

(2014) Rie Saba et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Life-long in vivo cell-lineage tracing shows that no oogenesis originates from putative germline stem cells in adult mice

(2014) Hua Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Notch2 is required in somatic cells for breakdown of ovarian germ-cell nests and formation of primordial follicles

(2013) Jingxia Xu et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Mouse primordial germ cells produce cysts that partially fragment prior to meiosis

(2013) L. Lei et al.   DEVELOPMENT

A Mesodermal Factor, T, Specifies Mouse Germ Cell Fate by Directly Activating Germline Determinants

(2013) Shinya Aramaki et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Lineage specification in the early mouse embryo

(2013) Fredrik Lanner   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Comparative gene expression profiling of adult mouse ovary-derived oogonial stem cells supports a distinct cellular identity

(2013) Anthony N. Imudia et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Female mice lack adult germ-line stem cells but sustain oogenesis using stable primordial follicles

(2013) L. Lei et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental evidence showing that no mitotically active female germline progenitors exist in postnatal mouse ovaries

(2012) H. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gonadotropin treatment augments postnatal oogenesis and primordial follicle assembly in adult mouse ovaries?

(2012) Deepa Bhartiya et al.   Journal of Ovarian Research

Ovarian Stem Cell Niche and Follicular Renewal in Mammals

(2011) Antonin Bukovsky   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Meiosis in Mice without a Synaptonemal Complex

(2011) Anna Kouznetsova et al.   PLoS One

Mammalian foetal ovarian development: consequences for health and disease

(2011) Mai A Sarraj et al.   REPRODUCTION

Differentiation potential of germ line stem cells derived from the postnatal mouse ovary☆

(2010) Jason Pacchiarotti et al.   DIFFERENTIATION

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

(2009) Yasuhide Ohinata et al.   CELL

Germ cell specification in mice

(2009) Mitinori Saitou   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Steel factor controls primordial germ cell survival and motility from the time of their specification in the allantois, and provides a continuous niche throughout their migration

(2009) Y. Gu et al.   DEVELOPMENT

BAX-mediated cell death affects early germ cell loss and incidence of testicular teratomas in Dnd1Ter/Ter mice

(2009) Matthew S. Cook et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Mammalian Ovary from Genesis to Revelation

(2009) Mark A. Edson et al.   ENDOCRINE REVIEWS

The primordial pool of follicles and nest breakdown in mammalian ovaries

(2009) C. Tingen et al.   MOLECULAR HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Mechanisms guiding primordial germ cell migration: strategies from different organisms

(2009) Brian E. Richardson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Sox2 and Oct-3/4: a versatile pair of master regulators that orchestrate the self-renewal and pluripotency of embryonic stem cells

(2009) Angie Rizzino   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Systems Biology and Medicine

Suppression of Notch Signaling in the Neonatal Mouse Ovary Decreases Primordial Follicle Formation

(2008) Daniel J. Trombly et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

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

Activation of  -catenin signaling by Rspo1 controls differentiation of the mammalian ovary

(2008) A.-A. Chassot et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Stra8 and its inducer, retinoic acid, regulate meiotic initiation in both spermatogenesis and oogenesis in mice

(2008) E. L. Anderson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Normal ovarian surface epithelial label-retaining cells exhibit stem/progenitor cell characteristics

(2008) P. P. Szotek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Selective Blockade of MicroRNA Processing by Lin28

(2008) S. R. Viswanathan et al.   SCIENCE