Special Section: Focus on Meiosis:

Editorial:

Mary Herbert

Focus on Meiosis
Reproduction 2005 130: 759-760. [Full Text] [PDF] FREE  

Reviews:

Meisha A Morelli and Paula E Cohen

Not all germ cells are created equal: Aspects of sexual dimorphism in mammalian meiosis
Reproduction 2005 130: 761-781. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] FREE  

E Revenkova and R Jessberger

Keeping sister chromatids together: cohesins in meiosis
Reproduction 2005 130: 783-790. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] FREE  

Lisa M Mehlmann

Stops and starts in mammalian oocytes: recent advances in understanding the regulation of meiotic arrest and oocyte maturation
Reproduction 2005 130: 791-799. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Acknowledgement] FREE  

Stephane Brunet and Bernard Maro

Cytoskeleton and cell cycle control during meiotic maturation of the mouse oocyte: integrating time and space
Reproduction 2005 130: 801-811. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] FREE  

Keith T Jones

Mammalian egg activation: from Ca²⁺ spiking to cell cycle progression
Reproduction 2005 130: 813-823. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] FREE  

Regular Papers

Brief Review:

Richard M Schultz

From egg to embryo: a peripatetic journey
Reproduction 2005 130: 825-828. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research:

Hayden A Homer, Alex McDougall, Mark Levasseur, Alison P Murdoch, and Mary Herbert

Mad2 is required for inhibiting securin and cyclin B degradation following spindle depolymerisation in meiosis I mouse oocytes
Reproduction 2005 130: 829-843. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elena Ibáñez, Alexandra Sanfins, Catherine M H Combelles, Eric W Overström, and David F Albertini

Genetic strain variations in the metaphase-II phenotype of mouse oocytes matured in vivo or in vitro
Reproduction 2005 130: 845-855. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paola Pocar, Daniela Nestler, Michaela Risch, and Bernd Fischer

Apoptosis in bovine cumulus–oocyte complexes after exposure to polychlorinated biphenyl mixtures during in vitro maturation
Reproduction 2005 130: 857-868. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M Muñoz-Gutiérrez, P A Findlay, C L Adam, G Wax, B K Campbell, N R Kendall, M Khalid, M Forsberg, and R J Scaramuzzi

The ovarian expression of mRNAs for aromatase, IGF-I receptor, IGF-binding protein-2, -4 and -5, leptin and leptin receptor in cycling ewes after three days of leptin infusion
Reproduction 2005 130: 869-881. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M Hinkins, J Huntriss, D Miller, and H M Picton

Expression of Polycomb-group genes in human ovarian follicles, oocytes and preimplantation embryos
Reproduction 2005 130: 883-888. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroaki Funahashi

Effect of beta-mercaptoethanol during in vitro fertilization procedures on sperm penetration into porcine oocytes and the early development in vitro
Reproduction 2005 130: 889-898. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mandy G Katz-Jaffe, Donald W Linck, William B Schoolcraft, and David K Gardner

A proteomic analysis of mammalian preimplantation embryonic development
Reproduction 2005 130: 899-905. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mika Katayama, Peter Sutovsky, Boh S Yang, Tom Cantley, August Rieke, Randy Farwell, Richard Oko, and Billy N Day

Increased disruption of sperm plasma membrane at sperm immobilization promotes dissociation of perinuclear theca from sperm chromatin after intracytoplasmic sperm injection in pigs
Reproduction 2005 130: 907-916. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Georgios Anifandis, Eleni Koutselini, Ioannis Stefanidis, Vassilios Liakopoulos, Constantinos Leivaditis, Themis Mantzavinos, and Nikolaos Vamvakopoulos

Serum and follicular fluid leptin levels are correlated with human embryo quality
Reproduction 2005 130: 917-921. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rahul Rathi, Ali Honaramooz, Wenxian Zeng, Stefan Schlatt, and Ina Dobrinski

Germ cell fate and seminiferous tubule development in bovine testis xenografts
Reproduction 2005 130: 923-929. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daisuke Kobayashi, Masanori Irokawa, Tomoji Maeda, Akira Tsuji, and Ikumi Tamai

Carnitine/organic cation transporter OCTN2-mediated transport of carnitine in primary-cultured epididymal epithelial cells
Reproduction 2005 130: 931-937. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

V Carter, R Pierce, S Dufour, C Arme, and D Hoole

The tapeworm Ligula intestinalis (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) inhibits LH expression and puberty in its teleost host, Rutilus rutilus
Reproduction 2005 130: 939-945. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

ERRATUM
Reproduction 2005 130: 947. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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