A tiny helper lightens the maternal load.
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Abstract
In a recent issue of Science, the puzzle of how a large number of maternal mRNAs can be coordinately destroyed at the mid-blastula transition of early animal embryogenesis is solved. The mysterious agent is not a protein but rather a microRNA that is transcribed at this transition point.
Medical subject headings
- Blastula
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- MicroRNAs
- Ribonuclease III