The road to maturation: somatic cell interaction and self-organization of the mammalian oocyte

Luteinizing hormone reduces the activity of the NPR2 guanylyl cyclase in mouse ovarian follicles, contributing to the cyclic GMP decrease that promotes resumption of meiosis in oocytes

(2012) Jerid W. Robinson et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Chromosomal, metabolic, environmental, and hormonal origins of aneuploidy in mammalian oocytes

(2012) Keith T. Jones et al.   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Phospholipase C-ζ-induced Ca2+ oscillations cause coincident cytoplasmic movements in human oocytes that failed to fertilize after intracytoplasmic sperm injection

(2012) Karl Swann et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

The transition from meiotic to mitotic spindle assembly is gradual during early mammalian development

(2012) Aurélien Courtois et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Geometry and force behind kinetochore orientation: lessons from meiosis

(2012) Yoshinori Watanabe   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Confinement induces actin flow in a meiotic cytoplasm

(2012) M. Pinot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cytoplasmic streaming in Drosophila oocytes varies with kinesin activity and correlates with the microtubule cytoskeleton architecture

(2012) S. Ganguly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complete Kinetochore Tracking Reveals Error-Prone Homologous Chromosome Biorientation in Mammalian Oocytes

(2011) Tomoya S. Kitajima et al.   CELL

WAVE2 regulates meiotic spindle stability, peripheral positioning and polar body emission in mouse oocytes

(2011) Shao-Chen Sun et al.   CELL CYCLE

Symmetry breaking in mouse oocytes requires transient F-actin meshwork destabilization

(2011) J. Azoury et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Mitotic Spindle Orientation in Asymmetric and Symmetric Cell Divisions during Animal Development

(2011) Xavier Morin et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Opposing effects of Tcf3 and Tcf1 control Wnt stimulation of embryonic stem cell self-renewal

(2011) Fei Yi et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Subcellular Localization of Cytoplasmic Lattice-Associated Proteins Is Dependent upon Fixation and Processing Procedures

(2011) Eric Morency et al.   PLoS One

Arp2/3 Complex Regulates Asymmetric Division and Cytokinesis in Mouse Oocytes

(2011) Shao-Chen Sun et al.   PLoS One

Rhythmic actomyosin-driven contractions induced by sperm entry predict mammalian embryo viability

(2011) Anna Ajduk et al.   Nature Communications

P-Body Loss Is Concomitant with Formation of a Messenger RNA Storage Domain in Mouse Oocytes1

(2010) Matyas Flemr et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Maternal-effect gene Ces5/Ooep/Moep19/Floped is essential for oocyte cytoplasmic lattice formation and embryonic development at the maternal-zygotic stage transition

(2010) Fumi Tashiro et al.   GENES TO CELLS

Regulation of the G2/M transition in rodent oocytes

(2010) Stephen M. Downs   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

The transcription factor MafB antagonizes antiviral responses by blocking recruitment of coactivators to the transcription factor IRF3

(2010) Hwijin Kim et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Transmission of Mitochondrial DNA Diseases and Ways to Prevent Them

(2010) Joanna Poulton et al.   PLoS Genetics

Cyclic GMP from the surrounding somatic cells regulates cyclic AMP and meiosis in the mouse oocyte

(2009) R. P. Norris et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Meiotic spindle dynamics in human oocytes following slow-cooling cryopreservation

(2009) J.J. Bromfield et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Fyn kinase activity is required for normal organization and functional polarity of the mouse oocyte cortex

(2009) Jinping Luo et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Spindle orientation during asymmetric cell division

(2009) Karsten H. Siller et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The consequences of asynapsis for mammalian meiosis

(2009) Paul S. Burgoyne et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Sperm Chromatin-Induced Ectopic Polar Body Extrusion in Mouse Eggs after ICSI and Delayed Egg Activation

(2009) Manqi Deng et al.   PLoS One

Role of Filia, a maternal effect gene, in maintaining euploidy during cleavage-stage mouse embryogenesis

(2009) P. Zheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A New Model for Asymmetric Spindle Positioning in Mouse Oocytes

(2008) Melina Schuh et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Spindle Positioning in Mouse Oocytes Relies on a Dynamic Meshwork of Actin Filaments

(2008) Jessica Azoury et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Role for PADI6 and the cytoplasmic lattices in ribosomal storage in oocytes and translational control in the early mouse embryo

(2008) P. Yurttas et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Luteinizing hormone causes MAP kinase-dependent phosphorylation and closure of connexin 43 gap junctions in mouse ovarian follicles: one of two paths to meiotic resumption

(2008) R. P. Norris et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Cdc42 protein acts upstream of IQGAP1 and regulates cytokinesis in mouse oocytes and embryos

(2008) Anna Bielak-Zmijewska et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

A Subcortical Maternal Complex Essential for Preimplantation Mouse Embryogenesis

(2008) Lei Li et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

The RanGTP gradient - a GPS for the mitotic spindle

(2008) P. Kalab et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Actin-driven chromosomal motility leads to symmetry breaking in mammalian meiotic oocytes

(2008) Hongbin Li et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Lifeact: a versatile marker to visualize F-actin

(2008) Julia Riedl et al.   NATURE METHODS

Distribution of RNA binding protein MOEP19 in the oocyte cortex and early embryo indicates pre-patterning related to blastomere polarity and trophectoderm specification

(2007) John C. Herr et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY