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Nutrition & Dietetics
M. Christine Schleif, Shelby L. Havel, Michael D. Griswold
Summary: Retinoic acid, an active metabolite of vitamin A, plays important roles in the developmental processes of mammals, especially in spermatogenesis. It is crucial for the formation of the blood-testis barrier and spermatogonial differentiation, spermiation, and assisting in meiotic completion in male reproduction. However, research results on female oogenesis have shown varying outcomes.
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Reproductive Biology
Millissia Ben Maamar, Eric E. Nilsson, Michael K. Skinner
Summary: The development of gametes (sperm and egg) is crucial in transmitting optimized physiological adaptations and phenotypes to subsequent generations. Environmental factors actively regulate epigenetics, impacting the physiology and phenotype of cellular and biological systems. The integration of genetics and epigenetics is essential for developmental biology systems at the cellular and organism level.
BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION
(2021)
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Cell Biology
Houda Ouns Maaroufi, Lucie Pauchova, Yu-Hsien Lin, Bulah Chia-Hsiang Wu, Lenka Rouhova, Lucie Kucerova, Ligia Cota Vieira, Marek Renner, Hana Sehadova, Miluse Hradilova, Michal Zurovec
Summary: This study investigated the role of the cnt1 gene in male fertility using fruit flies. The mutants exhibited defects in copulation duration and spermatid maturation, particularly in the abnormal structure of the sperm tail. These findings highlight the importance of cnt1 in male fertility and suggest its involvement in nucleoside transport and associated metabolic pathways.
FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Liqiong Guo, Huishu Lin, Hongyu Li, Xiaobin Jin, Lei Zhao, Penghui Li, Naiwei Xu, Song Xu, Junkai Fang, Shaowei Wu, Qisijing Liu
Summary: Various environmental and behavioural factors affect neonatal health, and gametogenesis is a crucial period that can impact embryo development and neonatal health. Exposure to ambient air pollution during this stage may lead to adverse birth outcomes.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2023)
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Fisheries
Flemming Dahlke, Velmurugu Puvanendran, Atle Mortensen, Hans-Otto Poertner, Daniela Storch
Summary: The impacts of global warming and ocean acidification on fish reproduction, specifically Atlantic cod, were investigated. The study found that both warming and the combination of warming and acidification resulted in reduced gamete quality and fertilization success in farmed cod. These findings suggest potential loss of spawning habitat in the future.
JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
(2022)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Maria Jose Gomez-Torres, Miranda Hernandez-Falco, Andrea Lopez-Botella, Natalia Huerta-Retamal, Paula Saez-Espinosa
Summary: This study describes the distribution of IZUMO1 in human sperm under different physiological conditions. The results show that IZUMO1 is mainly located in the acrosomal region, and a new distribution pattern suggests the migration of IZUMO1. The study also reveals various combinations between the IZUMO1 staining patterns and the acrosomal stages.
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Zoe G. Nichols, Vahid Zadmajid, Vaishnavi Dalal, Jim Stoeckel, William Wayman, Ian A. E. Butts
Summary: The diversity of freshwater unionid mussels is decreasing due to extirpation or extinction of species. Techniques such as gene banking and assisted reproduction provide opportunities to save other species. Research on seasonal changes in sperm concentration and morphology, as well as the development of efficient quantification methods, can help in further investigation of sperm quality, fertilizing capacity, and cryopreservation for freshwater mussels.
ANIMAL REPRODUCTION SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Rhian G. Waller, Savannah Goode, Di Tracey, Julia Johnstone, Annie Mercier
Summary: The presence of deep-sea corals has been documented since the late 1800s, but ecological research on these species only began about 100 years later. Deep-sea corals play a vital role in creating habitat and contributing to global marine biodiversity. However, there is still a lack of understanding about their reproduction, with less than 4% of known species having any aspect of reproduction reported.
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Evolutionary Biology
Karen Salazar, Ademaria Novais, Jose Lino-Neto, Jose Eduardo Serrao
Summary: This study investigated the sperm characteristics of Gyretes sp., a whirligig beetle, and found that its sperm has unique structures that distinguish it from other Adephaga species. The formation of secondary sperm aggregates may play an important role in reproduction and gene transfer.
ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION
(2022)
Review
Reproductive Biology
Chandlar H. Kern, Mingyao Yang, Wan-Sheng Liu
Summary: The PRAME gene family, predominantly expressed in the testis and various tumors, plays multifaceted roles in germ cells as leucine rich repeat proteins localized in the nucleus and cytoplasm. These proteins act as transcriptional regulators in germline development, contributing to the maintenance of embryonic stem cell pluripotency, primordial germ cell development, and spermatogenic/oogenic cell differentiation/proliferation. They are also involved in organelles such as the rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi vesicle, germinal granules, centrioles, contributing to spermiogenesis. The PRAME gene family is essential for gametogenesis throughout the entire life cycle, with specific members in male or female germ cells, as well as shared molecular mechanisms with oncogenesis.
BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Catherine M. Couillard, Domynick Maltais, Renald Belley
Summary: The study investigated the stock-specific mass and length recovery rates of Canadian sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa, revealing variations in dry product mass based on depth and season. The results showed that gutted mass was the most reliable metric for predicting processed body mass and estimating size.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Julia Castro-Arnau, Francois Chauvigne, Jessica Gomez-Garrido, Anna Esteve-Codina, Marc Dabad, Tyler Alioto, Roderick Nigel Finn, Joan Cerda
Summary: This study investigated the molecular mechanisms involved in the transformation of haploid germ cells into spermatozoa in the marine teleost gilthead seabream. The transcriptome changes between germ cells and ejaculated sperm were examined, identifying differentially expressed genes and long non-coding RNAs. The upregulated genes were found to be involved in various cellular processes, including transcriptional and translational regulation, chromatin and cytoskeleton organization, and metabolic processes. Pathway analysis revealed the enrichment of signaling pathways related to chemokines, cytokines, gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptors, and platelet derived growth factors.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Tugce Oz, Valentina Mengoli, Julie Rojas, Katarzyna Jonak, Marianne Braun, Ievgeniia Zagoriy, Wolfgang Zachariae
Summary: This study investigates the coordination between spore differentiation and meiosis in yeast. It finds that spore differentiation begins at metaphase II, when a membrane-nucleating structure is assembled at the centrosome. The components of this structure accumulate during meiosis I but cannot assemble due to occupation of the centrosome. The assembly of this structure depends on specific signaling pathways and is initiated upon degradation of certain proteins during anaphase I.
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Cell Biology
Hai-Liang Zhang, Bing-Xin Hu, Zhi-Ling Li, Tian Du, Jia-Lu Shan, Zhi-Peng Ye, Xiao-Dan Peng, Xuan Li, Yun Huang, Xian-Ying Zhu, Yu-Hong Chen, Gong-Kan Feng, Dajun Yang, Rong Deng, Xiao-Feng Zhu
Summary: Through CRISPR-Cas9 and kinase inhibitor screening, Zhang et al. found that PKC beta II phosphorylates and activates ACSL4 to enhance polyunsaturated fatty acid-containing lipid biosynthesis, thereby promoting accumulation of lipid peroxidation and ferroptosis.
NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
(2022)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Guohui Zhang, Chuan Jiang, Yushang Yang, Yan Wang, Haimeng Zhou, Siyu Dai, Mohan Liu, Yanting Yang, Li Yang, Qiongyan Shen, Tao Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, Yihong Yang, Ying Shen
Summary: In this study, we reported male infertility patients with a hemizygous nonsense mutation in the cancer-testis antigen 55 (CT55) gene, which resulted in extreme disruption in sperm production, morphology, and locomotion. Our functional experiments revealed that CT55 acts as a novel autophagic manipulator involved in spermatogenesis.
CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION
(2023)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Pranjali N. Dalvi, Vijayalaxmi G. Gupta, Brooke R. Griffin, Amy O'Brien-Ladner, Navneet K. Dhillon
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
(2015)
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Lesya Holets-Bondar, Katherine F. Roby, George Enders, Joseph S. Tash
BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
(2015)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ajay Bansal, Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Kenneth Wang
JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
(2016)
Review
Cell Biology
Sushanta K. Banerjee, Gargi Maity, Inamul Haque, Arnab Ghosh, Sandipto Sarkar, Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Donald R. Campbell, Daniel Von Hoff, Snigdha Banerjee
JOURNAL OF CELL COMMUNICATION AND SIGNALING
(2016)
Review
Cell Biology
Arvind Subramanian, Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Sandipto Sarkar, Gargi Maity, Snigdha Banerjee, Arnab Ghosh, LaCoiya Harris, Lane K. Christenson, WeiTing Hung, Ajay Bansal, Sushanta K. Banerjee
JOURNAL OF CELL COMMUNICATION AND SIGNALING
(2016)
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Oncology
S. Sarkar, A. Ghosh, S. Banerjee, G. Maity, A. Das, M. A. Larson, V. Gupta, I. Haque, O. Tawfik, S. K. Banerjee
Review
Cell Biology
Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Inamul Haque, Jinia Chakraborty, Stephanie Graff, Snigdha Banerjee, Sushanta K. Banerjee
JOURNAL OF CELL COMMUNICATION AND SIGNALING
(2018)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Gargi Maity, Inamul Haque, Arnab Ghosh, Gopal Dhar, Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Sandipto Sarkar, Imaan Azeem, Douglas McGregor, Abhishek Choudhary, Donald R. Campbell, Suman Kambhampati, Sushanta K. Banerjee, Snigdha Banerjee
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
(2018)
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Chemistry, Organic
Jae Chul Lee, Subhashree Francis, Dinah Dutta, Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Yan Yang, Jin-Yi Zhu, Joseph S. Tash, Ernst Schoenbrunn, Gunda I. Georg
JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2012)
Review
Cell Biology
Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Sneha Bhavanasi, Mohiuddin Quadir, Kevin Singh, Gaurav Ghosh, Kritin Vasamreddy, Arnab Ghosh, Teruna J. Siahaan, Snigdha Banerjee, Sushanta K. Banerjee
JOURNAL OF CELL COMMUNICATION AND SIGNALING
(2019)
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Oncology
Gargi Maity, Arnab Ghosh, Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Inamul Haque, Sandipto Sarkar, Amian Das, Kakali Dhar, Sneha Bhavanasi, Sumedha S. Gunewardena, Daniel D. Von Hoff, Sanku Mallik, Suman Kambhampati, Sushanta K. Banerjee, Snigdha Banerjee
MOLECULAR CANCER THERAPEUTICS
(2019)
Review
Oncology
Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Fiona Yull, Dineo Khabele
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Chemistry, Medicinal
Xingxian Gu, Vijayalaxmi Gupta, Yan Yang, Jin-Yi Zhu, Erick J. Carlson, Carolyn Kingsley, Joseph S. Tash, Ernst Schonbrunn, Jon Hawkinson, Gunda I. Georg
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Developmental Biology
K. V. R. Reddy, G. Vijayalaxmi, K. S. Rajeev, C. Aranha
REPRODUCTION FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT
(2006)