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Can We Just Say: Transcription Second?

Author(s) -

Peter H.L. Krijger,

Wouter de Laat

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2017.03.026

Subject(s) - biology , genome , maternal to zygotic transition , computational biology , genetics , transcription (linguistics) , function (biology) , drosophila melanogaster , transcription factor , evolutionary biology , zygote , gene , embryogenesis , linguistics , philosophy

The striking correlation between genome topology and transcriptional activity has for decades made researchers revisit the question, "Does form follow function, or does function follow form?" In a new study, Hug et al. address this question by comparing the timing of zygotic genome activation to the emergence of genome structures during Drosophila embryogenesis.

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