Atsuo Ogura

This paper demonstrates a method to induce male-to-female sex reversal in mice using Y-chromosome elimination and somatic cell nuclear transfer, enabling reproduction from a single male genome.

This study shows that the zinc transporter Zip10 is essential for zinc sparks during fertilization in mice, which are critical for embryo development.

This study shows that Resf1 is essential for placental development and trophoblast cell-specific heterochromatin configuration in mice, with loss of Resf1 leading to retroelement upregulation and developmental defects.

The paper identifies Obox4 as a redundant transcription factor that promotes zygotic genome activation in mouse embryos, compensating for the loss of Dux.

This study shows that OVGP1, an oviductal humoral factor, is essential for female fertility and early embryonic development in golden hamsters.

This study shows that reducing ooplasmic volume in oocytes improves meiotic accuracy and embryo development, enabling offspring production from azoospermic mice with spermatocyte arrest.

This study shows that piRNAs are essential for early embryonic development and spermatogonia establishment in golden hamsters, with distinct effects on male and female fertility.

This paper describes a new non-mosaic humanized mouse model of Down syndrome with a nearly complete copy of the long arm of human chromosome 21.