RNAseq of the in vitro matured and in vivo matured monkey oocytes

Oocyte quality largely determines the embryo development after fertilization. High-quality oocyte requires the competence of both cytoplasm and nucleus. However, clinically, the treatment of developmentally competent oocytes was limited. Here, in order to improve the embryo development efficiency of developmentally incompetent oocytes, we performed spindle-chromosome complex (SCC) transfer between in vitro matured (IVM) and in vivo matured (IVO) oocytes of the non-human primate. We observed that the blastocyst rate of embryos derived by transferring the SCC of IVM (IVM-SCC) oocytes into enucleated IVO oocytes was comparable with that of embryos derived by IVO oocytes. After transferring the reconstructed embryos into the uterus of surrogate mothers, two live rhesus monkeys were obtained, indicating that the nuclei of IVM oocytes support both the pre-and post-implantation embryo development of non-human primates. Overall design: RNA-seq for the comparison of gene expression between monkey GV oocytes, in vitro matured oocytes and in vivo matured oocytes.