title: Nursing the Follicles.
abstract: In a recent issue of Science, Lei and Spradling (2016) uncover how germ cells differentiate into oocytes in mouse embryos. Mouse germ cells form cysts, in which sister cells nurse the developing oocyte by donating their organelles and cytoplasmic materials.
authors.affiliation: University of California San Diego, Natural Sciences Building #1 Rm5328, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
authors.forename: Jesse T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Chao
authors.affiliation: University of California San Diego, Natural Sciences Building #1 Rm5328, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: mniwarosen@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Maho
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niwa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D015726:Giant Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D009865:Oocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D009866:Oogenesis; D015388:Organelles / Q000502:physiology*