Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
Curr Biol. 2014 Jan 20;24(2):R72-R75. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.051.
The handover from maternal to zygotic control has to be carefully orchestrated. In most animal embryos, maternal products drive early embryogenesis, and the genome of the zygote is only switched on later. However, in the nematode Ascaris the zygotic genome is never silent, and the maternal products are rapidly eliminated.
从母体到合子控制的交接必须精心协调。在大多数动物胚胎中,母体产物驱动早期胚胎发生,而合子的基因组则在稍后才被激活。然而,在蛔虫中,合子基因组从未沉默,母体产物迅速被消除。