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Oocyte-to-embryo transition: kinase cabal plots regime change.

Greenstein D, Lee LA

Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA. david.greenstein@vanderbilt.edu

The transition from oocyte to embryo is among the most enthralling events in developmental biology. Recent studies of this transition in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans have revealed how conserved kinases administer the destruction of key oocyte meiotic regulators to create an embryo.

Published 7 February 2006 in Curr Biol, 16(3): R93-5.
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