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Published in final edited form as: Cell Tissue Res. 2015 Sep 16;363(1):47–55. doi: 10.1007/s00441-015-2286-5

Table 1.

Suggested roles for SUMOylation in female and male germ cells.

	Oogenesis	Spermatogenesis	Reference
Meiotic processes	Germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD)	Synapsis and condensation of chromosomes	Yuan, et al., 2014, Vigodner and Morris, 2005
	Metaphase II spindle formation and organization	Meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI)	Wang, et al., 2010, Vigodner and Morris, 2005
	Polar body 1 (PB1) extrusion	XY body formation	Yuan, et al., 2014, Rogers, et al., 2004
	Chromosome segregation & prevention of aneuploidy	Synaptonemal complex scaffold maintenance during pachytene stage	Yuan, et al., 2014, Brown, et al., 2008
	Cytokinesis	Microtubule Assembly	Wang et al., 2010, Vigodner and Morris, 2005
Non-meiotic processes	Pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA export and transcriptional activity	Spermatid elongation & manchette formation	Ihara, et al., 2008, Vigodner and Morris, 2005