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VALIDATION AND APPLICATION OF LINEAR AMPLIFICATION PROCEDURES FOR STUDY OF OOCYTE GENOMICS: GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING OF BOVINE OOCYTE MATURATION.
Author(s): Patel , Osman¹, Bettegowda , Anilkumar ¹, Yao, Jianbo⁵, Suchyta, Steve³, Ireland , James ^{2, 3}, Coussens , Paul³, Smith , George^{1, 3, 4}, ¹ Laboratory of Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Genomics, East Lansing, MI⁵ Division of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Morgantown, WV³ Center for Animal Functional Genomics, East Lansing, MI² Molecular Reproductive Endocrinology Laboratory, East Lansing, MI⁴ Department of Physiology, East Lansing, MI

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MOUSE GENETIC MODELS OF INFERTILITY: A LARGE-SCALE ENU MUTAGENESIS PROGRAM TO PRODUCE REPRODUCTIVE MUTANT RESOURCES.
Author(s): Pendola, Janice¹, Lessard, Carl¹, Hartford, Suzanne¹, Sweeney, Sheila¹, Masse, Jessica¹, Schimenti, John¹, Handel, Mary¹, Eppig, John¹, ¹ The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

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BCL-2 FAMILY PROTEINS PLAY A ROLE IN OOCYTE SURVIVAL, CYST BREAKDOWN AND PRIMORDIAL FOLLICLE FORMATION IN THE DEVELOPING MOUSE OVARY.
Author(s): Pepling, Melissa ¹, Medico, Leonard¹, Greenfeld, Chuck², Flaws, Jodi³, ¹ Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY² University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD³ University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

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EFFECTS OF MOUSE OVARIAN TISSUE CRYOPRESERVATION ON GRANULOSA CELL-OOCYTE INTERACTION.
Author(s): Plancha, Carlos¹, Navarro-Costa, Paulo¹, Correia, Sónia², Gouveia-Oliveira, António³, Negreiro, Filipa³, Jorge, Sónia², Cidadão, António¹, Carvalho, Maria², ¹ Biology of Reproduction Unit, Lisbon, Portugal² Reproductive Medicine Unit, Lisbon, Portugal³ Datamedica Lda, Lisbon, Portugal

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LOSS OF Crisp-1 FROM THE SPERM SURFACE CORRELATES WITH CAPACITATION IN MOUSE EPIDIDYMAL SPERM.
Author(s): Ensrud, Kathy¹, Parent, Karlye¹, Najera, Lydia², Behrens, Timothy³, Hamilton, David¹, Roberts, Kenneth⁴, ¹ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN² University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN³ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN⁴ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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LOCALIZATION OF SAMP14, A NOVEL ACROSOMAL MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN, DURING ACROSOME BIOGENESIS IN THE HUMAN TESTIS.
Author(s): Vanage, Geeta¹, Shetty, Jagathpala¹, Klotz, Kenneth¹, Westbrook, Vivian¹, Flickinger, Charles¹, Herr, John¹, ¹ Department of Cell Biology, Charlottesville, VA

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INVOLVEMENT OF PI 3-KINASE IN THE ACTIVATION OF CDC2 KINASE DURING SPONTANEOUS MEIOTIC RESUMPTION OF PORCINE OOCYTES.
Author(s): Villa-Diaz, Luis^*,1, Miyano, Takashi¹, ¹ Department of Life Science, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

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IDENTIFICATION OF A NOVEL MALE GERM CELL-SPECIFIC GENE TESF-1.
Author(s): Fan, Jun ¹, Akabane, Hiroto¹, Richardson, Laura ², Zhu, Guo-Zhang¹, ¹ Marshall University, Huntington, WV² Marshall University, School of Medicine, Huntington, WV

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