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These events have generally been viewed as autonomous responses occurring independently within each follicle. Here, however, we show that mouse preovulatory follicles can communicate with one another through an LH-induced paracrine signaling network. Isolated preovulatory follicles lacking LH receptors (Lhr-KO) resumed oocyte meiosis when cocultured with LH-stimulated wildtype follicles, despite being unable to respond directly to LH. Oocytes within Lhr-KO follicles also resumed meiosis when exposed to conditioned medium from LH-treated wildtype follicles, demonstrating that diffusible factors mediate this interfollicular communication. Neutralizing antibodies against the epidermal growth factor receptor ligands epiregulin and amphiregulin inhibited the LH-induced interfollicular communication, identifying these LH-induced factors as key signaling molecules. 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