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Maternal Effect Genes

Maternal Effect Gene is a type of gene whose product, synthesized in the mother and deposited in the oocyte, determines the early embryonic phenotype independently of the zygote's genotype.

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The adaptive significance of maternal effects

Timothy A. Mousseau · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1998 · 2K citations

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Parental imprinting of the mouse insulin-like growth factor II gene

Thomas M. DeChiara, Elizabeth J. Robertson, Argiris Efstratiadis · Cell · 1991 · 1.8K citations

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Completion of mouse embryogenesis requires both the maternal and paternal genomes

James McGrath, Davor Solter · Cell · 1984 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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Cyclin: A protein specified by maternal mRNA in sea urchin eggs that is destroyed at each cleavage division

Tom Evans, Eric T. Rosenthal, Jim Youngblom et al. · Cell · 1983 · 1.5K citations

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Implication of sperm RNAs in transgenerational inheritance of the effects of early trauma in mice

Katharina Gapp, Ali Jawaid, Peter Sarkies et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2014 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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    Norbert Perrimon

    Harvard University, United States

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    M. Azim Surani

    The Gurdon Institute, United Kingdom

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    Francisco Pelegri

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    11 publications · 681 citations

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    Christiane Nüsslein‐Volhard

    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany

    11 publications · 2.2K citations

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    Anthony P. Mahowald

    Case Western Reserve University, United States

    9 publications · 780 citations

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  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

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  2. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

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  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    28 h-index

    131 publications

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  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

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    71 publications

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  5. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    21 h-index

    87 publications

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  6. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    20 h-index

    74 publications

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  7. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

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  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

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  1. Development

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  2. Genetics

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  3. Developmental Biology

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  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 34 publications · 4K citations

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  5. Nature

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