Those germ cells that enter meiosis become oocytes, the source of future eggs. Consequently, females are born with a finite number of oocytes arrested in the first meiotic prophase. Within the ...

The biological factory that produces reproductive cells has a robust quality control system to identify and eliminate eggs ...

and stars indicate clusters of oocytes devoid of hybridization signal. Unlike its DNA repair role in somatic cells, homologous recombination has a distinct role in meiosis in ensuring proper ...

One characteristic of oocyte development and physiology that ... are spread throughout the cytoplasm during different stages of meiosis and early embryo development. 3 Further analysis were ...