Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) Regulates Primordial Follicle Assembly by Promoting Apoptosis of Oocytes in Fetal and Neonatal Mouse Ovaries

• Bo Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Xu, Juan Hua

  Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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• Juan Hua ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Xu, Juan Hua

  Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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• Yuanwei Zhang,

  Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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• Xiaohua Jiang,

  Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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• Huan Zhang,

  Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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• Tieliang Ma,

  Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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• Wei Zheng,

  Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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• Rui Sun,

  Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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• Wei Shen,

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Jiahao Sha,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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• Howard J. Cooke,

  Affiliation MRC Human Genetics Unit and Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Qinghua Shi

  * E-mail: qshi@ustc.edu.cn

  Affiliation Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

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