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Why is meiosis arrested?

Journal of theoretical biology - 21 Sept 1998

Mira A

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In mammals and birds, females are born with all the oocytes required for future ovulations. These oocytes are not haploid: they are arrested at the Prophase I of meiosis when they have two sister chromatids of each chromosome (i.e. the eggs are at the 4C stage). Under the assumption that the low number of ovulated eggs in these species have been selected to be of high quality, I propose three explanations for...

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PMID: 9778439
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1998.0761

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