TWiEVO 125: Evolution's egg timer

This Week in Evolution by Vincent Racaniello

Apr 26, 202652:59Science & Medicine

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 t...

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