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Ribosomal RNA gene functioning in avian oogenesis

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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.

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Acknowledgments

We cordially express our gratitude to Herbert Macgregor whose critical comments to the manuscript have been extremely useful. We thank Olga Lavrova and Asya Davidyan for providing juvenile chicken ovary micrographs. We are also grateful to Saint Petersburg State University Scientific Park for providing equipment and software (“Chromas” Core Facility).

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    Elena Koshel, Svetlana Galkina, Alsu Saifitdinova, Alexandr Dyomin, Svetlana Deryusheva & Elena Gaginskaya

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Koshel, E., Galkina, S., Saifitdinova, A. et al. Ribosomal RNA gene functioning in avian oogenesis. Cell Tissue Res 366, 533–542 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00441-016-2444-4

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