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Maternal Information and Genetic Control of Oogenesis in Drosophila

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In Drosophila, by the time the egg is laid, it has received all the genetic information that is required: (i) for the cell divisions that will occur until gastrulation; (ii) for determining the anteroposterior and dorsoventral axes of polarity of the future embryo, and for delimiting the major morphogenetic areas—anterior, posterior and terminal; and (iii) to ensure the perennity of the species (germ cell determinants). This information is accumulated in the oocyte in the course of its development, that is to say during oogenesis, and results from the activity of the maternal genome alone. Zygotic transcription will only begin two hours after the egg is laid, in the preblastoderm stage embryo (10th division cycle).

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Thomas-Delaage, M., Rosset, R. (1998). Maternal Information and Genetic Control of Oogenesis in Drosophila . In: Chatterjee, R.N., Sánchez, L. (eds) Genome Analysis in Eukaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11829-0_2

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