The ability of a bovine embryo to develop to the blastocyst stage, to implant and to generate
a healthy offspring is not a simple process. To clarify the importance of the contribution of the
oocyte to the embryo quality, it is important to define more precisely the different types of
competence expressed by oocytes. The ability to resume meiosis, to cleave upon fertilization
to develop into a blastocyst, to induce pregnancy and to generate an healthy offspring are all
separate events and succeeding in the first events does not ensure the success of …