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Molecular Reproduction & Development Volume 84, Issue 11, November 2017
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
molecular reproduction and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.745
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1098-2795
pISSN - 1040-452X
DOI - 10.1002/mrd.22724
Subject(s) - biology , germline , embryo , zygote , evolutionary biology , reproduction , embryogenesis , maternal to zygotic transition , ploidy , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , zoology , gene
Ctenophores, also known as comb jellies, are non‐bilaterian invertebrates and nearly all are self‐fertile hermaphrodites. Mnemiopsis leidyi is a particularly useful model for the study of cellular, tissue, and organ patterning in ctenophores due to their extreme transparency, as seen in these adults. The locomotory ctene rows, highlighted by iridescence, overlie the germ line, from which gametes and embryos are readily available in large numbers. In this issue, Davidson et al. characterize transcript expression and timing of the maternal‐to‐zygotic transition and accompanying zygotic genome activation during early embryogenesis in this ctenophore .