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

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

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Oocyte formation by mitotically active germ cells purified from ovaries of reproductive-age women

(2012) Yvonne A R White et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

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

The primordial follicle reserve is not renewed after chemical or γ-irradiation mediated depletion

(2012) J B Kerr et al.   REPRODUCTION

Cell Lineage Analysis of the Mammalian Female Germline

(2012) Yitzhak Reizel et al.   PLoS Genetics

Early oogenesis in the short-tailed fruit bat Carollia perspicillata: Transient germ cell cysts and noncanonical intercellular bridges

(2011) Agnieszka Lechowska et al.   GENESIS

No evidence for the presence of oogonia in the human ovary after their final clearance during the first two years of life

(2011) A. G. Byskov et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Germ Cell Intercellular Bridges

(2011) M. P. Greenbaum et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Reinterpretation of evidence advanced for neo-oogenesis in mammals, in terms of a finite oocyte reserve

(2011) Elena Notarianni   Journal of Ovarian Research

Identification of Germline Stem Cells in the Ovary of the Teleost Medaka

(2010) S. Nakamura et al.   SCIENCE

Production of offspring from a germline stem cell line derived from neonatal ovaries

(2009) Kang Zou et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Stem Cells and Niches: Mechanisms That Promote Stem Cell Maintenance throughout Life

(2008) Sean J. Morrison et al.   CELL

The oocyte population is not renewed in transplanted or irradiated adult ovaries

(2008) S. Begum et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION