
← This Week in Evolution26 Apr · 53 min
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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