DNA methylation in embryo development: epigenetic impact of ART (assisted reproductive technologies)

S Canovas, PJ Ross, G Kelsey, P Coy - Bioessays, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation can be considered a component of epigenetic memory with a critical role
during embryo development, and which undergoes dramatic reprogramming after …

[HTML][HTML] Human germline cell development: from the perspective of single-cell sequencing

L Wen, F Tang - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Germline cells are the beginning of new individuals in multicellular animals, including
humans. Our understanding of these cell types is limited by the difficulty of analyzing the …

Single-cell DNA methylome sequencing of human preimplantation embryos

P Zhu, H Guo, Y Ren, Y Hou, J Dong, R Li, Y Lian… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a crucial layer of epigenetic regulation during mammalian embryonic
development,–. Although the DNA methylome of early human embryos has been analyzed …

Live birth of chimeric monkey with high contribution from embryonic stem cells

J Cao, W Li, J Li, MA Mazid, C Li, Y Jiang, W Jia, L Wu… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A formal demonstration that mammalian pluripotent stem cells possess preimplantation
embryonic cell-like (naive) pluripotency is the generation of chimeric animals through early …

Dynamic epigenomic landscapes during early lineage specification in mouse embryos

Y Zhang, Y Xiang, Q Yin, Z Du, X Peng, Q Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In mammals, all somatic development originates from lineage segregation in early embryos.
However, the dynamics of transcriptomes and epigenomes acting in concert with initial cell …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of aberrant DNA re-methylation improves post-implantation development of somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos

R Gao, C Wang, Y Gao, W Xiu, J Chen, X Kou, Y Zhao… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) enables cloning of differentiated cells by
reprogramming their nuclei to a totipotent state. However, successful full-term development …

Genome-wide detection of imprinted differentially methylated regions using nanopore sequencing

V Akbari, JM Garant, K O'Neill, P Pandoh, R Moore… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Imprinting is a critical part of normal embryonic development in mammals, controlled by
defined parent-of-origin (PofO) differentially methylated regions (DMRs) known as imprinting …

The oviduct: from sperm selection to the epigenetic landscape of the embryo

S Pérez-Cerezales, P Ramos-Ibeas… - Biology of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The mammalian oviduct is the place where life begins as it is the site of fertilization and
preimplantation embryo development. Recent research has highlighted the important role …

[HTML][HTML] The epigenetics of gametes and early embryos and potential long-range consequences in livestock species—filling in the picture with epigenomic analyses

L Zhu, SL Marjani, Z Jiang - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The epigenome is dynamic and forged by epigenetic mechanisms, such as DNA
methylation, histone modifications, chromatin remodeling, and non-coding RNA species …

[HTML][HTML] Methylome Dynamics of Bovine Gametes and in vivo Early Embryos

JE Duan, ZC Jiang, F Alqahtani, I Mandoiu… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
DNA methylation undergoes drastic fluctuation during early mammalian embryogenesis.
The dynamics of global DNA methylation in bovine embryos, however, have mostly been …