When mothers shut down the fathers' genes in the embryo - EurekAlert

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. …

image: Chromosomes of a Marchantia embryo in the metaphase plate during cell division. The epigenetic mark that silences the paternal chromosomes is reported in cyan. Hence, the paternal chromosomes … [+4182 chars]

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