Volume 36, No 4, Apr 2026

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 36 Issue 4, April 2026: 300-303

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 primes non-growing oocytes for growth and early embryogenesis

Mengwen Hu^1,2,* , Yasuhisa Munakata¹ , Yu-Han Yeh¹ , Raissa G. Dani¹ , Han Wang¹ , Neil Hunter^1,3 , Richard M. Schultz^1,4 , Satoshi H. Namekawa^1,*

¹Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
²Reproductive Medicine Center, The Affiliated Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
³Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
⁴Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Correspondence: Mengwen Hu(mwhu8860@163.com)Satoshi H. Namekawa(snamekawa@ucdavis.edu)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-026-01232-w

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