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Ovum

Known as: Unfertilized Eggs, Egg, Egg, Unfertilized 
A mature haploid female germ cell extruded from the OVARY at OVULATION.
National Institutes of Health

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24 relations
Chick EmbryoColiform bacteria:NCnt:Pt:Egg:Qn:Viability countFemale internal genitalia structureFertilization

Narrower (5)

Egg Whites - dietaryEgg Yolk (Dietary)OogoniaXenopus oocyte

Broader (4)

Germ CellsOocytesOvaryPoultry Products

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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Induction of metaphase arrest in cleaving Xenopus embryos by MAP kinase.
The natural arrest of vertebrate unfertilized eggs in second meiotic metaphase results from the activity of cytostatic factor… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Fission yeast p13 blocks mitotic activation and tyrosine dephosphorylation of the Xenopus cdc2 protein kinase
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
A 12-base-pair DNA motif that is repeated several times in metallothionein gene promoters confers metal regulation to a heterologous gene.
To define DNA sequences involved in mouse metallothionein-I (MT-I) gene promoter function and metal regulation, we fused the 5… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Biology of insect eggs
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Assembly of SV40 chromatin in a cell-free system from Xenopus eggs
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Intracellular pH and activation of sea urchin eggs after fertilisation
The intracellular pH of the sea urchin embryo increases 0.3 pH units between 1 and 4 min after fertilisation. The increase in pH… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
The dependence of immunological cross-reactivity upon sequence resemblance among lysozymes. I. Micro-complement fixation studies.
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Storage of two-cell mouse embryos in vitro.
There are reports of the storage at O-lOoC of fertilized rabbit (Chang 1947, 1948; Hafez 1965) and sheep ova (Averill 1956… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Deoxyribonucleic acid in amphibian eggs.
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
MACROMOLECULE SYNTHESIS AND THE INFLUENCE OF ACTINOMYCIN ON EARLY DEVELOPMENT.
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