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Roles of Figla/figla in Juvenile Ovary Development and Follicle Formation During Zebrafish Gonadogenesis.
Endocrinology - 1 Nov 2018
Qin Mingming, Zhang Zhiwei, Song Weiyi, Wong Queenie Wing-Lei, Chen Weiting, Shirgaonkar Niranjan, Ge Wei
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Sex determination and differentiation are complex processes. As a juvenile hermaphrodite or undifferentiated gonochorist, zebrafish undergo a special juvenile ovarian phase during sex differentiation, making it an excellent model for studying early oogenesis and folliculogenesis. We provide lines of evidence at morphological, molecular, and genetic levels for roles of factor in the germline α (Figla), an...
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