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Aquaporins in gametogenesis of vertebrate animals

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A review of the data on the presence, localization, and supposed role of aquaporin water channels in oocytes of Xenopus laevis, oogenesis and maturation of teleosts Sparus auratus and Oncorhynchus mykiss, oogenesis and oocyte maturation of rats and mice, and spermatogenesis of several mammalians.

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Original Russian Text © M.N. Skoblina, 2008, published in Ontogenez, 2008, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 39–46.

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Skoblina, M.N. Aquaporins in gametogenesis of vertebrate animals. Russ J Dev Biol 39, 35–41 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062360408010062

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