TWiEVO 125: Evolution’s egg timer

Nels and Vincent discuss the development of a comprehensive transcriptomic atlas of early
embryogenesis from 61 animal species to understand the control of gene expression transitions from maternally deposited products to newly transcribed zygotic RNA.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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• Evolutionary landscapes of zygotic genome activation across animals (bioRxiv)
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