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A novel mechanism controls the Ca2+ oscillations triggered by activation of ascidian eggs and has an absolute requirement for Cdk1 activity

scientific article

Beta-catenin patterns the cell cycle during maternal-to-zygotic transition in urochordate embryos.

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Ca(2+) oscillations promote APC/C-dependent cyclin B1 degradation during metaphase arrest and completion of meiosis in fertilizing mouse eggs.

scientific article

Ca(2+)-promoted cyclin B1 degradation in mouse oocytes requires the establishment of a metaphase arrest

scientific article published in May 2004

Calcium waves and oscillations in eggs.

scientific article

Cell cycle arrest and activation of development in marine invertebrate deuterostomes

scientific article published on 08 April 2014

Cell cycle-dependent repetitive Ca(2+ )waves induced by a cytosolic sperm extract in mature ascidian eggs mimic those observed at fertilization.

scientific article published in October 2000

Cell-cycle control in oocytes and during early embryonic cleavage cycles in ascidians.

scientific article published on January 2012

Cytoplasmic domains in eggs.

scientific article published on May 1994

Different calcium-dependent pathways control fertilisation-triggered glycoside release and the cortical contraction in ascidian eggs

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

Dual mechanism controls asymmetric spindle position in ascidian germ cell precursors

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

ERK- and JNK-signalling regulate gene networks that stimulate metamorphosis and apoptosis in tail tissues of ascidian tadpoles

scientific article published in March 2007

Embryological methods in ascidians: the Villefranche-sur-Mer protocols.

scientific article published in January 2011

Endoplasmic reticulum generates calcium signalling microdomains around the nucleus and spindle in syncytial Drosophila embryos.

scientific article

Exploring the mechanism of action of the sperm-triggered calcium-wave pacemaker in ascidian zygotes

scientific article published in December 2003

Fertilisation calcium signals in the ascidian egg.

scientific article published on February 2004

Function and characteristics of repetitive calcium waves associated with meiosis

scientific article

Homologue disjunction in mouse oocytes requires proteolysis of securin and cyclin B1.

scientific article published in November 2003

Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) responsiveness is regulated in a meiotic cell cycle dependent manner: implications for fertilization induced calcium signaling

scientific article published in November 2003

Internal calcium release and activation of sea urchin eggs by cGMP are independent of the phosphoinositide signaling pathway ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

Kif2 localizes to a subdomain of cortical endoplasmic reticulum that drives asymmetric spindle position

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

Mad2 is required for inhibiting securin and cyclin B degradation following spindle depolymerisation in meiosis I mouse oocytes.

scientific article published in December 2005

Mad2 prevents aneuploidy and premature proteolysis of cyclin B and securin during meiosis I in mouse oocytes

scientific article published in January 2005

Microdomains bounded by endoplasmic reticulum segregate cell cycle calcium transients in syncytial Drosophila embryos.

scientific article published on October 2005

Microinjection and 4D fluorescence imaging in the eggs and embryos of the ascidian Phallusia mammillata

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Mos limits the number of meiotic divisions in urochordate eggs

scientific article published in March 2011

Pairing, connecting, exchanging, pausing and pulling chromosomes

scientific article published in February 2005

RNA interference in meiosis I human oocytes: towards an understanding of human aneuploidy.

scientific article published on 20 May 2005

Redundant mechanisms of calcium-induced calcium release underlying calcium waves during fertilization of sea urchin eggs

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Release from meiotic arrest in ascidian eggs requires the activity of two phosphatases but not CaMKII

scientific article

Restaging the spindle assembly checkpoint in female mammalian meiosis I.

scientific article published on 14 May 2005

Role of PB1 Midbody Remnant Creating Tethered Polar Bodies during Meiosis II

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

Simultaneous measurement of intracellular nitric oxide and free calcium levels in chordate eggs demonstrates that nitric oxide has no role at fertilization

scientific article

Sperm-induced calcium oscillations at fertilisation in ascidians are controlled by cyclin B1-dependent kinase activity.

scientific article published in February 2000

Sperm-induced currents at fertilization in sea urchin eggs injected with EGTA and neomycin

scientific article published on June 1, 1992

Sperm-triggered calcium oscillations during meiosis in ascidian oocytes first pause, restart, then stop: correlations with cell cycle kinase activity

scientific article published in November 1998

The PP2A inhibitor I2PP2A is essential for sister chromatid segregation in oocyte meiosis II.

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

The initiation and propagation of the fertilization wave in sea urchin eggs

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

The sperm entry point defines the orientation of the calcium-induced contraction wave that directs the first phase of cytoplasmic reorganization in the ascidian egg.

scientific article published on October 1995

Thimerosal reveals calcium-induced calcium release in unfertilised sea urchin eggs

scientific article published on 01 February 1993

Urochordate ascidians possess a single isoform of Aurora kinase that localizes to the midbody via TPX2 in eggs and cleavage stage embryos

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

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