Evolution of the Egg: New Findings and Challenges

Sperm-Egg Interaction

(2011) Janice P. Evans   Annual Review of Physiology

What does it take to make a developmentally competent mammalian egg?

(2011) M. Zuccotti et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION UPDATE

Sequencing technologies and genome sequencing

(2011) Chandra Shekhar Pareek et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED GENETICS

The Molecular Basis of Sex: Linking Yeast to Human

(2011) Willie J. Swanson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fertilization with acrosome-reacted mouse sperm: Implications for the site of exocytosis

(2011) M. A. Avella et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Most fertilizing mouse spermatozoa begin their acrosome reaction before contact with the zona pellucida during in vitro fertilization

(2011) M. Jin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Acrosome-reacted mouse spermatozoa recovered from the perivitelline space can fertilize other eggs

(2011) N. Inoue et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The biology and evolution of polyspermy: insights from cellular and functional studies of sperm and centrosomal behavior in the fertilized egg

(2011) Rhonda R Snook et al.   REPRODUCTION

Human Sperm Binding Is Mediated by the Sialyl-Lewisx Oligosaccharide on the Zona Pellucida

(2011) P.-C. Pang et al.   SCIENCE

Acrosome reaction in the cumulus oophorus revisited: involvement of a novel sperm-released factor NYD-SP8

(2011) Ting Ting Sun et al.   Protein & Cell

Cellular mechanisms regulating sperm–zona pellucida interaction

(2010) Andrew T Reid et al.   ASIAN JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY

Insights into Egg Coat Assembly and Egg-Sperm Interaction from the X-Ray Structure of Full-Length ZP3

(2010) Ling Han et al.   CELL

In-Depth Proteomic Analyses of Direct Expressed Prostatic Secretions

(2010) Richard R. Drake et al.   JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH

Use of proteomics to identify highly abundant maternal factors that drive the egg-to-embryo transition

(2010) Piraye Yurttas et al.   REPRODUCTION

PACAP-mediated sperm–cumulus cell interaction promotes fertilization

(2010) Ichiro Tanii et al.   REPRODUCTION

Gamete Recognition in Mice Depends on the Cleavage Status of an Egg's Zona Pellucida Protein

(2010) G. Gahlay et al.   SCIENCE

β1Integrin Is an Adhesion Protein for Sperm Binding to Eggs

(2009) Keith A. Baessler et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Proteomic discovery of previously unannotated, rapidly evolving seminal fluid genes in Drosophila

(2009) G. D. Findlay et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

ZP Domain Proteins in the Abalone Egg Coat Include a Paralog of VERL under Positive Selection That Binds Lysin and 18-kDa Sperm Proteins

(2009) J. E. Aagaard et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Targeted capture and massively parallel sequencing of 12 human exomes

(2009) Sarah B. Ng et al.   NATURE

Proteomics in the Study of the Sperm Cell Composition, Differentiation and Function

(2009) Rafael Oliva et al.   Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Coevolution of Interacting Fertilization Proteins

(2009) Nathaniel L. Clark et al.   PLoS Genetics

Hyaluronan fragments generated by sperm-secreted hyaluronidase stimulate cytokine/chemokine production via the TLR2 and TLR4 pathway in cumulus cells of ovulated COCs, which may enhance fertilization

(2008) M. Shimada et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The sperm chemoattractant secreted from human cumulus cells is progesterone

(2008) R. Oren-Benaroya et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Causes and consequences of the evolution of reproductive proteins

(2008) Leslie M. Turner et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Sperm penetration through cumulus mass and zona pellucida

(2008) Ekyune Kim et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Mammalian fertilization:the eggs multifunctional zona pellucida

(2008) Paul M. Wassarman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Welcome to the fold

(2008) Paul M. Wassarman   NATURE

Crystal structure of the ZP-N domain of ZP3 reveals the core fold of animal egg coats

(2008) Magnus Monné et al.   NATURE

A polycystin-1 controls postcopulatory reproductive selection in mice

(2008) K. A. Sutton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic Analysis and Identification of Pseudogenes Reveal a Progressive Loss of Zona Pellucida Genes During Evolution of Vertebrates1

(2007) Ghylène Goudet et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION