Intercellular bridges coordinate the transition from pluripotency to meiosis in mouse fetal oocytes

Novel localizations and interactions of intercellular bridge proteins revealed by proteomic profiling†

(2020) Tokuko Iwamori et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Dissecting the initiation of female meiosis in the mouse at single-cell resolution

(2020) Wei Ge et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Meiosis occurs normally in the fetal ovary of mice lacking all retinoic acid receptors

(2020) Nadège Vernet et al.   Science Advances

Apoptosis in the fetal testis eliminates developmentally defective germ cell clones

(2020) Daniel H. Nguyen et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Stella protein facilitates DNA demethylation by disrupting the chromatin association of the RING finger–type E3 ubiquitin ligase UHRF1

(2019) Wenlong Du et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Dazl determines primordial follicle formation through the translational regulation of Tex14

(2019) Roseanne Rosario et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Epigenetic reprogramming enables the transition from primordial germ cell to gonocyte

(2018) Peter W. S. Hill et al.   NATURE

Stella safeguards the oocyte methylome by preventing de novo methylation mediated by DNMT1

(2018) Yingfeng Li et al.   NATURE

CLARITY reveals dynamics of ovarian follicular architecture and vasculature in three-dimensions

(2017) Yi Feng et al.   Scientific Reports

Stage-Specific Demethylation in Primordial Germ Cells Safeguards against Precocious Differentiation

(2016) Joseph Hargan-Calvopina et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Meiotic onset is reliant on spatial distribution but independent of germ cell number in the mouse ovary

(2016) Ripla Arora et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Mouse oocytes differentiate through organelle enrichment from sister cyst germ cells

(2016) L. Lei et al.   SCIENCE

ALDH1A1 provides a source of meiosis-inducing retinoic acid in mouse fetal ovaries

(2016) Josephine Bowles et al.   Nature Communications

Geography of Follicle Formation in the Embryonic Mouse Ovary Impacts Activation Pattern During the First Wave of Folliculogenesis1

(2015) Marília H. Cordeiro et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

A Whole-Mount Approach for Accurate Quantitative and Spatial Assessment of Fetal Oocyte Dynamics in Mice1

(2015) Safia Malki et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Follicle dynamics and global organization in the intact mouse ovary

(2015) Mehlika Faire et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

DNA methylation restrains transposons from adopting a chromatin signature permissive for meiotic recombination

(2015) Natasha Zamudio et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

A Role for Retrotransposon LINE-1 in Fetal Oocyte Attrition in Mice

(2014) Safia Malki et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

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

(2013) L. Lei et al.   DEVELOPMENT

RipleyGUI: software for analyzing spatial patterns in 3D cell distributions

(2013) Kristin Hansson et al.   Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

PGC7 binds histone H3K9me2 to protect against conversion of 5mC to 5hmC in early embryos

(2012) Toshinobu Nakamura et al.   NATURE

Licensing of gametogenesis, dependent on RNA binding protein DAZL, as a gateway to sexual differentiation of fetal germ cells

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

Germ Cell Intercellular Bridges

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

Sex-specific timing of meiotic initiation is regulated by Cyp26b1 independent of retinoic acid signalling

(2011) Sandeep Kumar et al.   Nature Communications

Apoptosis in the germ line

(2010) R John Aitken et al.   REPRODUCTION

Mouse TEX14 Is Required for Embryonic Germ Cell Intercellular Bridges but Not Female Fertility1

(2008) Michael P. Greenbaum et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Fast unfolding of communities in large networks

(2008) Vincent D Blondel et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT