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Investigations into the role of zinc regulation in germline development in Caenorhabditis elegans

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The purpose of the egg is to give rise to offspring in sexually reproducing organisms. Zinc thresholds became connected to egg quality from initial breakthrough discoveries in M. musculus which demonstrated that large-scale zinc fluxes occur during meiotic maturation, and these fluxes are required to maintain female egg viability. Numerous...

Keyword:

germline regulation, zinc, zinc flux, and oocyte maturation

Subject:

Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) Graduate Program

Creator:

Adelita D. Mendoza

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

02/11/2019

Date Modified:

02/11/2019

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation