title: Mammalian ovary differentiation - a focus on female meiosis.
abstract: Over the past 50 years, the ovary development has been subject of fewer studies as compare to the male pathway. Nevertheless due to the advancement of genetics, mouse ES cells and the development of genetic models, studies of ovarian differentiation was boosted. This review emphasizes some of new progresses in the research field of the mammalian ovary differentiation that have occurred in recent years with focuses of the period around prophase I of meiosis and of recent roles of small non-RNAs in the ovarian gene expression.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Génétique et Biologie Cellulaire, EA 4589 Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, F-78035 Versailles cedex, France. adrienne.baillet@uvsq.fr
authors.forename: Adrienne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baillet
authors.forename: Béatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mandon-Pepin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D047108:Embryonic Development / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008540:Meiosis / Q000235:genetics*; D010053:Ovary / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D013737:Testis / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology