title: Ribosomal RNA gene functioning in avian oogenesis.
abstract: Despite long-term exploration into ribosomal RNA gene functioning during the oogenesis of various organisms, many intriguing problems remain unsolved. In this review, we describe nucleolus organizer region (NOR) activity in avian oocytes. Whereas oocytes from an adult avian ovary never reveal the formation of the nucleolus in the germinal vesicle (GV), an ovary from juvenile birds possesses both nucleolus-containing and non-nucleolus-containing oocytes. The evolutionary diversity of oocyte NOR functioning and the potential non-rRNA-related functions of the nucleolus in oocytes are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytology and Histology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, 199034, Russia.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koshel
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytology and Histology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, 199034, Russia.
authors.forename: Svetlana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Galkina
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytology and Histology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, 199034, Russia.
authors.forename: Alsu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saifitdinova
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytology and Histology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, 199034, Russia.
authors.forename: Alexandr
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dyomin
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytology and Histology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, 199034, Russia.|Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
authors.forename: Svetlana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Deryusheva
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytology and Histology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, 199034, Russia. elena.gaginskaya@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gaginskaya
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000235:genetics*; D002466:Cell Nucleolus / Q000378:metabolism; D020459:Genes, rRNA; D007621:Karyotyping; D009865:Oocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D009866:Oogenesis / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: Birds; Chicken; Nucleolus; Oogenesis; Ribosomal RNA genes