Detection of endogenous Dicer1 proteins in mouse, rat, and golden hamster MII oocytes via western blot. The black arrow indicates Dicer S and the red arrowhead indicates Dicer O . Dicer was detected using 100 mouse, 75 rat, and 44 golden hamster oocytes. Approximately 1 g of total protein was used for NIH3T3 Dicer detection. Dicer S , somatic Dicer1; Dicer O , oocyte Dicer1; M, marker