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+[[!meta title="The Oikopleura coenocyst, a unique chordate germ cell permitting rapid, extensive modulation of oocyte production."]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
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+Ganot P, Bouquet JM, Kallesøe T, Thompson EM.
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+Dev Biol. 2007 Feb 15;302(2):591-600 doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.10.021
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+The Oikopleura coenocyst, a unique chordate germ cell permitting rapid, extensive modulation of oocyte production.
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+[[!pmid 17126826 desc="The coenocyst is a syncytium containing nurse nuclei and meiotic nuclei surrounded by their cytoplasms and connected by ring channels. Figure 1p of spawned oocytes in cortical metaphase I shows 3 DNA masses. Germline-specific expression of Vasa."]]
Development
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+ - The oocytes originate from a specialised syncitium, the coenocyst, in which
+ nurse cells and oocytes are connected by cytoplasmic bridges, the ring channels
+ ([[Ganot and coll., 2007|17126826]]).
- The first and second polar bodies are visible 5 and 15 min after fertilisation,
respectively ([[Nishino and Morisawa, 1998|biblio/10.2108_zsj.15.723]]).
- First embryonic cleavages are deterministic and “Clonal organization of the
tissues is essentially invariant among individuals” ([[Stach and coll.,
2008|biblio/18490654]]).
+ - Colchicine treatment induced early differenciation of the oocytes
+ ([[Ganot, Kallesøe, Thompson (2007)|biblio/17123503]]).
- Generation times shortens when temperature rises. First spawnings are seen
on day 6 at 14.2 °C, and on day 8 at 17.2 °C ([[Bouquet and coll.,
2018|biblio/29298334]]). Reported generation times in the litterature: 149 ± 2
eventually pause. Animals in GA can survive ~18 days at 15°C. GA can also be
induced by inhibiting the TOR pathway ([[Subramaniam, Campsteijn and Thompson,
2014|biblio/24695788]]).
- - Colchicine treatment induced early differenciation of the oocytes
- ([[Ganot, Kallesøe, Thompson (2007)|biblio/17123503]]).
- Telomeres are localised at the nuclear envelope and do not overlap with nuclear
pore complexes in early meiotic oocytes before H3S10 phosphorylation. In nurse
cells at a later stage of oocyte development, the telomeres localise in silent