MORC2B is essential for meiotic progression and fertility

• Baolu Shi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Baolu Shi, Jiangyang Xue

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Jiangyang Xue ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Baolu Shi, Jiangyang Xue

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Reproduction and Genetics, The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

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• Jian Zhou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Xinhua Hospital, Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Seth D. Kasowitz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Yuanwei Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation USTC-SJH Joint Center for Human Reproduction and Genetics, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,Anhui, China

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• Guanxiang Liang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Yongjuan Guan,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Qinghua Shi,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation USTC-SJH Joint Center for Human Reproduction and Genetics, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,Anhui, China

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• Mingxi Liu,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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• Jiahao Sha,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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• Xiaoyan Huang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bbhxy@njmu.edu.cn (XH); pwang@vet.upenn.edu (PJW)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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• P. Jeremy Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bbhxy@njmu.edu.cn (XH); pwang@vet.upenn.edu (PJW)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2311-4089

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