Mother controls embryo's gene activity

Friday, December 18, 2015 - 09:32 in Biology & Nature

Frog embryos do not fully control which genes they can turn on or off in the beginning of their development – but their mother does, through specific proteins in the egg cell. Molecular developmental biologists at Radboud University publish these results in Nature Communications on December 18.

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