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Errors at the start of life – EurekAlert
The process of combining maternal and paternal genetic information is surprisingly error-prone

IMAGE: A bovine egg after fertilization: The parental genomes are still located in two separate pronuclei. Before unification, the chromosomes (magenta) cluster at the pronuclear interface. Part of the cytoskeleton is…
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Credit: MPI for Biophysical Chemistry/ Tommaso Cavazza and Melina Schuh
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