Manami Kobayashi

The paper shows that oocyte polarity can form without the Balbiani body, using zebrafish mutants where Buc protein and mRNA localization remain normal despite Bb failure.

This paper identifies maternal-effect mutants in zebrafish that reveal molecular mechanisms controlling the oocyte-to-egg transition, focusing on yolk globule formation and protein processing.

The paper identifies four zebrafish maternal-effect mutants affecting egg-to-embryo transition processes and discovers a novel conserved gene, krang, involved in cortical granule function during egg activation.