Parental genome unification is highly erroneous in mammalian embryos
Tommaso Cavazza, Yuko Takeda, Antonio Zaccaria Politi, Magomet Aushev, Patrick Aldag, Clara Baker, Meenakshi K Choudhary, Jonas Bucevičius, Gražvydas Lukinavičius, Kay T. Elder, Martyn L Blayney, Andrea Lucas‐Hahn, Heiner Niemann, Mary Herbert, Melina Schuh
The paper identifies an error-prone mechanism of parental genome unification in bovine embryos that leads to aneuploidy, with defects in nucleolar clustering correlating with embryo development failure.
Cell · May 1, 2021Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology