Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The formation, development, and maturation of an ovum.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The genesis or origin and development of the ovum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physiol.) The development, or mode of origin, of the ova.

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  • noun biology The formation and development of an ovum.

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  • noun development of ova

Etymologies

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oo- + -genesis

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Examples

  • This marine worm, first described in 1949 as an acoel flatworm and later claimed as either an early metazoan offshoot or a primitive deuterostome, has recently been affiliated with primitive bivalve molluscs, based upon a study of gamete development oogenesis and an analysis of sequence data from both 18S rRNA and mitochondrial genes.

    The Panda's Thumb: November 2006 Archives 2006

  • This marine worm, first described in 1949 as an acoel flatworm and later claimed as either an early metazoan offshoot or a primitive deuterostome, has recently been affiliated with primitive bivalve molluscs, based upon a study of gamete development oogenesis and an analysis of sequence data from both 18S rRNA and mitochondrial genes.

    Strange worm, Xenoturbella - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Drosophila oogenesis to come to rival embrogenesis as a ideal system for studying patterning.

    Eric F. Wieschaus - Autobiography 1996

  • Since the shell is secreted by the follicle cells during oogenesis, we expected the defect to depend on the genotype of those cells.

    Eric F. Wieschaus - Autobiography 1996

  • The phenotypes suggested that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: Processes beginning during oogenesis define the large unique regions requiring the gap gene function, the gap genes in turn control

    Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes 1995

  • Except in the very earliest stages of oogenesis there is no real similarity between the development of a Zoophyte, a Mollusc, an Articulate and a Vertebrate, but each is stamped from the beginning with the characteristics of its type.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • The network also highlighted a number of proteins and their complexes absent from the mitotic spindle proteome (MSP), suggesting that some of them may have a specific microtubule-related role during oogenesis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vincent Gache et al. 2010

  • Kawakami K, Sakamoto H, Inoue K (2007) Spatiotemporal localization of germ plasm RNAs during zebrafish oogenesis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hitomi Suzuki et al. 2010

  • Kawakami K, Sakamoto H, Inoue K (2007) Spatiotemporal localization of germ plasm RNAs during zebrafish oogenesis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hitomi Suzuki et al. 2010

  • During oogenesis, MAPs are believed to stabilize microtubules preferentially close to condensed chromosomes, favoring spindle assembly around DNA.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vincent Gache et al. 2010

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