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Clocks and Dominoes: Timing Mechanisms of Embryogenesis
Yonghyun Song, Brian Leahy, Hanspeter Pfister…·Daniel J. Needleman
This study develops a quantitative framework to distinguish between clock and domino mechanisms in embryogenesis, finding domino governs cleavage timings while a clock mechanism governs morula and blastocyst timings.
DOI 10.64898/2026.01.25.701537