The battle of the sexes after fertilization: Behaviour of paternal and maternal chromosomes in the early mammalian embryo

Chromosome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 263-271

  Haaf, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin remodelling; DNA (de)methylation; Early embryogenesis; Epigenetic modification; Genome separation; Preimplantation development

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE DERIVATIVE; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; CLONING; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DIPLOIDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOMES; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; ZYGOTE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035791031     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016686312142     Document Type: Review

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