Transcription gets to the checkpoint.
basic_science · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2015.02.051.
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Abstract
The rapid cell proliferation characteristic of early animal embryos is accomplished with an abbreviated cell cycle and no DNA replication checkpoint. Blythe and Wieschaus provide evidence that nascent zygotic transcription precedes—and may trigger—this checkpoint at the midblastula transition.
Medical subject headings
- DNA Replication
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Zygote