PUBLICATION
Intraovarian transplantation of stage I-II follicles results in viable zebrafish embryos
- Authors
- Csenki, Z., Zaucker, A., Kovacs, B., Hadzhiev, Y., Hegyi, R., Lefler, K.K., Muller, T., Kovacs, R., Urbanyi, B., Varadi, L., and Muller, F.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100309-26
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- The International journal of developmental biology 54(4): 585-589 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Hadzhiev, Yavor, Müller, Ferenc, Urbanyi, Bela, Zaucker, Andreas
- Keywords
- oogenesis, follicle, transplantation, transgenic, maternal effect
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Blastula/metabolism
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism*
- Embryonic Development/genetics
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Models, Animal
- Oocytes/metabolism
- Oogenesis/genetics
- Ovarian Follicle/metabolism*
- Ovarian Follicle/transplantation*
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- PubMed
- 20209431 Full text @ Int. J. Dev. Biol.
Citation
Csenki, Z., Zaucker, A., Kovacs, B., Hadzhiev, Y., Hegyi, R., Lefler, K.K., Muller, T., Kovacs, R., Urbanyi, B., Varadi, L., and Muller, F. (2010) Intraovarian transplantation of stage I-II follicles results in viable zebrafish embryos. The International journal of developmental biology. 54(4):585-589.
Abstract
Maternal gene products drive early embryogenesis almost exclusively until the mid blastula transition (MBT) in many animal models including fish. However, the maternal contribution to embryogenesis does not stop at MBT, but continues to be an essential regulator of key developmental processes. The extent to which maternal effects contribute to embryonic and larval development is hard to estimate due to the technical difficulty of interfering with maternal gene products by conventional forward and reverse genetic tools. Therefore, novel methods to manipulate maternal factors in oocytes need to be developed. Here, we provide a proof of principle protocol for transplanting stage I-II zebrafish follicles into recipient mothers where donor stage I oocytes can develop to stage IV in 2 weeks and in 3 weeks they develop into mature eggs and produce viable offspring. Moreover, we show that simple microinjection of stage I-II follicles with RNA results in reporter gene expression in oocytes and paves the way for developing tools for interfering with maternal gene activity. This early stage oocyte transplantation protocol provides a means to study cellular and molecular aspects of oocyte development in the zebrafish.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping