When mothers shut down the fathers’ genes in the embryo
“With our work, we were able to highlight a unique aspect of biology, a slice of nature’s broad diversity”
25-Aug-2022 -
In humans, and many other species, both genes inherited from the mother and from the father influence how embryos develop. In the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, however, the mother has total control, as researchers from the Berger lab at GMI now uncovered. In a study published in eLife, the ...
chromosomes
embryo development
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