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Modes of natural selection on maternal and zygotic gene expression in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> embryos

2026-05-31

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Early embryonic development involves the coordination of gene expression from two distinct genomes, as mothers load eggs with gene products prior to the beginning of zygotic transcription. Because the maternal transcriptome is controlled by the mother’s regulatory genotype rather than that of the embryo, these two sequential developmental programs may experience distinct evolutionary constraints and selection pres...

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Literature Corpus work: 1b7f491a-2bf6-5452-9bc3-4146c2b0886b
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.29.728885

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