Part I: Male Germline
1. Isolation of Fetal Gonads from Embryos of Timed-Pregnant Mice for Morphological and Molecular Studies
Yunmin Li, Teruko Taketo, and Yun-Fai Chris Lau
2. Neonatal Testicular Gonocytes Isolation and Processing for Immunocytochemical Analysis
Gurpreet Manku, Monty Mazer, and Martine Culty
3. Isolation of Undifferentiated and Early Differentiating Type A Spermatogonia from Pou5f1-GFP Reporter Mice
Thomas Garcia and Marie-Claude Hofmann
4. Isolation of Human Male Germline Stem Cells Using Enzymatic Digestion and Magnetic-Activated Cell Sorting
Zuping He, Maria Kokkinaki, Jiji Jiang, Wenxian Zeng, Ina Dobrinski, and Martin Dym
5. Isolation and Purification of Murine Male Germ Cells
Catherine Boucheron and Vanessa Baxendale
6. Preparation of Enriched Mouse Syncitia-Free Pachytene Spermatocyte Cell Suspensions
Yan Wang and Martine Culty
7. Revealing Transcriptome Landscape of Mouse Spermatogonial Cells by Tiling Microarray
Tin-Lap Lee, Owen M. Rennert, and Wai-Yee Chan
8. Biochemical Characterization of a Testis-Predominant Isoform of N-Alpha Acetyltransferase
Alan Lap-Yin Pang
9. Identification of Novel Long Non-Coding RNA Transcripts in Male Germ Cells
Tin-Lap Lee, Amy Xiao, and Owen M. Rennert
10. Methylation Profiling Using Methylated DNA Immunoprecipitation and Tiling Array Hybridization
Hoi-Hung Cheung, Tin-Lap Lee, Owen M. Rennert, and Wai-Yee Chan
11. Spermatogenesis in Cryptorchidism
Alexander I. Agoulnik, Zaohua Huang, and Lydia Ferguson
Part II: Female Germline
12. In Vitro Culture of Fetal Ovaries: A Model to Study Factors Regulating Early Follicular Development
Shyamal K. Roy, Cheng Wang, Anindit Mukherjee, and Prabuddha Chakraborty
13. Microspread Oocyte Preparations for the Analysis of Meiotic Prophase Progression with Improved Recovery by Cytospin Centrifugation
Teruko Taketo
14. In Vitro Maturation (IVM) of Porcine Oocytes
Ye Yuan and Rebecca L. Krisher
15. Experimental Approaches to the Study of Human Primordial Germ Cells
Andrew J. Childs and Richard A. Anderson
16. Investigating the Origins of Somatic Cell Populations in the Perinatal Mouse Ovaries Using Genetic Lineage Tracing and Immunohistochemistry
Chang Liu, Melissa Paczkowski, Manal Othman, and Humphrey Hung-Chang Yao
17. DNA Methylation Analysis of Germ Cells by Using Bisulfite-Based Sequencing Methods
Hisato Kobayashi and Tomohiro Kono
18. Gene Expression in Mouse Oocytes by RNA-Seq
Eric Antoniou and Robert Taft
