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Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNAseq) enables the detection and quantification of mature RNAs in an individual cell. Assessing single cell transcriptomes can circumvent the limited amount of starting material obtained in oocytes or embryos, in particular when working with mutant mice. Here we outline our scRNAseq protocol to study mouse oocyte transcriptomes, derived from Tang et al., Nat Methods 6(5):377–382, 2009 . The method describes the different steps from single cell isolation and cDNA amplification to high-throughput sequencing. The bioinformatics pipeline used to analyze and compare genome-wide gene expression between individual oocytes is then described.
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Borensztein, M., Syx, L., Servant, N., Heard, E. (2018). Transcriptome Profiling of Single Mouse Oocytes. In: Verlhac, MH., Terret, ME. (eds) Mouse Oocyte Development. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1818. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8603-3_7
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