pro-oocyteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pro-oocyte (複数形 pro-oocytes)

1. (cytology) An undifferentiated germline cell with the potential to become an oocyte.
   • 1970 February 28, Robert C. King, International Review of Cytology, volume 28, page 129:

     In D. melanogaster, the nuclei of pro-oocytes and young oocytes are unsuitable for detailed cytological study at the light microscope level because of their small size.

   • 1997, Acaimo González-Reyes et al., “Oocyte determination and the origin of polarity in Drosophila: the role of the spindle genes”, in Development‎^[1], volume 124, pages 4927-4937:

     Two of the sixteen germline cells in each egg chamber develop as pro-oocytes, and the first asymmetry arises when one of these cells is selected to become the oocyte.