Loss of growth differentiation factor 9 causes an arrest of early folliculogenesis in zebrafish–A novel insight into its action mechanism

• Weiting Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Weiting Chen, Yue Zhai, Bo Zhu, Kun Wu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Centre of Reproduction, Development and Aging (CRDA), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China

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• Yue Zhai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Weiting Chen, Yue Zhai, Bo Zhu, Kun Wu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Centre of Reproduction, Development and Aging (CRDA), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China

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• Bo Zhu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Weiting Chen, Yue Zhai, Bo Zhu, Kun Wu

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Centre of Reproduction, Development and Aging (CRDA), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China

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• Kun Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Weiting Chen, Yue Zhai, Bo Zhu, Kun Wu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Centre of Reproduction, Development and Aging (CRDA), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China

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• Yuqin Fan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Centre of Reproduction, Development and Aging (CRDA), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China

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• Xianqing Zhou,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Toxicology and Hygienic Chemistry, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

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• Lin Liu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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• Wei Ge

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

  * E-mail: weige@umac.mo/gezebrafish@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Centre of Reproduction, Development and Aging (CRDA), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4296-1585

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