The number of primary oocytes (primordial follicle) peaks at the 5 months of gestational life with several million of primary oocytes. From this moment there is a progressive decline. At puberty ...

forming during fetal development and establishing a finite reserve of approximately one million primordial follicles. Each follicle contains one immature oocyte that is arrested in development and ...

Nonetheless, Slater's conclusion that the poly(A) tails were elongated by polyadenylation in the cytoplasm of the oocytes after fertilization was still valid and intriguing and set further ...