Table 1.
Studies showing the importance of zinc according to species and stage of development.
| Species | Oocyte development, maturation, and ovulation | Fertilization and partheno-genesis | Preconception and periconception effects | Reference(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In vitro | In vivo | In vitro | In vivo | Early embryo | Fetal and placenta development | |||
| DO | COC | |||||||
| Mouse | X | [127] | ||||||
| X | X | X | [56, 87] | |||||
| X | X | [10, 104, 117, 121, 124, 125, 132] | ||||||
| X | X | [154] | ||||||
| X | [118] | |||||||
| X | X | X | X | [98] | ||||
| X | X | X | X | [6] | ||||
| X | [11, 233] | |||||||
| X | X | [141] | ||||||
| X | [163, 164, 202] | |||||||
| X | X | [88] | ||||||
| X | [210, 216, 226] | |||||||
| Rat | X | [197] | ||||||
| Primate | X | X | [10] | |||||
| Human | X | [11] | ||||||
| Bovine | X | [151, 152] | ||||||
| X | X | [123] | ||||||
| X | X | X | [150] | |||||
| Porcine | X | [103, 234] | ||||||
| X | X | [235] | ||||||
| X | X | X | [143, 155] | |||||