Movie 2

Delipidation does not affect embryonic development.
MII oocytes with or without delipidation were fertilized in vitro and imaged every 15 min. Time shows hours, minutes, and seconds from 6 h after IVF (mp4; 4.3 MB).

Synthesis and maintenance of lipid droplets are essential for mouse preimplantation embryonic development

Ryutaro Aizawa, Megumi Ibayashi, Takayuki Tatsumi, Atsushi Yamamoto, Toshiaki Kokubo, Naoyuki Miyasaka, Ken Sato, Shuntaro Ikeda, Naojiro Minami, and Satoshi Tsukamoto

Development 2019. 146:None-None; doi: 10.1242/dev.181925