Regulatory principles governing the maternal-to-zygotic transition: insights from Drosophila melanogaster
The onset of metazoan development requires that two terminally differentiated germ cells, a sperm and an oocyte, become reprogrammed to the totipotent embryo, which can subsequently give rise to all the cell types of the adult organism. In nearly all animals, maternal gene products regulate the init...
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The Royal Society
2018-12-01
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsob.180183 |