Flow-dependent myosin recruitment during Drosophila cellularization requires zygotic dunk activity by He, Bing, Martin, Adam

“…Here, we show that during Drosophila cleavage, myosin recruitment to the cleavage furrows proceeds in temporally distinct phases of tension-driven cortical flow and direct recruitment, regulated by different zygotic genes. We identify the gene dunk, which we show is transiently transcribed when cellularization starts and functions to maintain cortical myosin during the flow phase. …”
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A set of genes critical to development is epigenetically poised in mouse germ cells from fetal stages through completion of meiosis by Lesch, Bluma J., Dokshin, Gregoriy A., Young, Richard A., McCarrey, John R., Page, David C

“…The biochemical basis for the ability to transition from differentiated cell to totipotent zygote is unknown. Here we report that a set of developmentally critical genes is maintained in an epigenetically poised (bivalent) state from embryonic stages through the end of meiosis. …”
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Maternal and paternal genomes contribute equally to the transcriptome of early plant embryos by Nodine, Michael D., Bartel, David

“…However, other gene-expression studies and genetic analyses show that some transcripts must derive from the early zygotic genome7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, implying that the prevailing model does not fully explain the nature of zygotic genome activation in plants. …”
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Early genome activation in Drosophila is extensive with an initial tendency for aborted transcripts and retained introns by Kwasnieski, Jamie C., Orr-Weaver, Terry, Bartel, David

“…Control of metazoan embryogenesis shifts from maternal to zygotic gene products as the zygotic genome becomes transcriptionally activated. …”
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Chromatin signature of embryonic pluripotency is established during genome activation by Vastenhouw, Nadine L., Zhang, Yong, Woods, Ian G., Imam, Farhad, Regev, Aviv, Liu, X. Shirley, Rinn, John L., Schier, Alexander F.

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C. elegans MCM-4 is a general DNA replication and checkpoint component with an epidermis-specific requirement for growth and viability by Korzelius, Jerome, The, Inge, Ruijtenberg, Suzan, Portegijs, Vincent, Xu, Huihong, van den Heuvel, Sander, Horvitz, Howard Robert

“…While the somatic gonad and germline show substantial ability to cope with lack of zygotic mcm-4 function, mcm-4 is specifically required in the epidermis for growth and survival of the whole organism. …”
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A Novel Sperm-Delivered Toxin Causes Late-Stage Embryo Lethality and Transmission Ratio Distortion in C. elegans by Seidel, Hannah S., Ailion, Michael, Li, Jialing, van Oudenaarden, Alexander, Rockman, Matthew V., Kruglyak, Leonid

“…We previously discovered one such element in C. elegans that gains a transmission advantage through a combination of paternal-effect killing and zygotic self-rescue. Here we demonstrate that this element is composed of a sperm-delivered toxin, peel-1, and an embryo-expressed antidote, zeel-1. peel-1 and zeel-1 are located adjacent to one another in the genome and co-occur in an insertion/deletion polymorphism. peel-1 encodes a novel four-pass transmembrane protein that is expressed in sperm and delivered to the embryo via specialized, sperm-specific vesicles. …”
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