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19 July 2026
Eggs' Essential Pathway
It's known that egg (oocyte) development – in all sexually reproducing animals – relies on a molecular signalling pathway called Wnt/β-catenin, but the details of its role are still being explored. Now, in developing zebrafish, researchers find that Wnt/β-catenin activity rises until eggs reach a certain size, then it rapidly declines. And they reveal the vital function of protein Stn1 in maintaining egg development
Read the published research article here
Image made using Leica Microsystems microscopy
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- Image from work by Xin Zhang, Yanpeng Zhai and Caixia Wang and colleagues
- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs (Ocean University of China), Chinese Ministry of Education, and School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in EMBO Reports, April 2026
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