Intestinal stress influences chromosome inheritance
Intestinal cells check the quality of oocytes and intervene when they detect defects
09-Feb-2022 -
Inheriting a normal and intact number of chromosomes in germ cells, egg and sperm, is essential for the preservation of all species. With increasing age, the risk of the egg cell not inheriting the normal set of chromosomes increases. This results in so-called aneuploidy, which can mean either ...
aneuploidy
Caenorhabditis elegans
chromosomes
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