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Calcium and cell cycle control in early embryos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Martin Wilding
Martin Wilding*
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Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy
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M. Wilding, Stazione Zoologica, Villa Comunale, 80121 Naples, Italy Telephone: +39-81-583-3288. Fax: +39-81-583-3260.
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Over the past few years, we have witnessed a burgeoning series of papers addressing the role of calcium signalling in cell cycle control. In this review I will attempt to bring together all the diverse threads and discuss new concepts that have arisen from the most recent data. Because the major part of the data concerns mitosis/meiosis entry and exit, I have focused on these areas. I will jointly refer to meiotic and mitotic phases of the cell cycle as M-phase because these phases are highly comparable. Studies of the cell cycle involve a huge range of species, from plants to humans. I will, however, restrict this review to the work performed in early embryos. I apologise in advance to contributors to this field whose names I do not mention because they do not work on embryos.

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Zygote , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , February 1996, pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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