The functions of three Aurora kinases in mammalian oocytes and reproduction discovered
The functions of three Aurora kinases in mammalian oocytes and reproduction discovered
26. 10. 2018
Females reproduce by making eggs in their ovaries. The process of making an egg involves an oocyte precursor completing two rounds of chromosome segregation, a process called meiosis
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Article in Current Biology.
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The figure shows erroneous chromosome segregation in the oocyte in which genes coding Aurora B and C were functionally disrupted. The oocyte was imaged using confocal microscope and selected time points of meiotic maturation are shown.