Dear Editor,The development of all the mammalian species begins from fertilization of a sperm and an egg into a diploid state.The maternal and paternal genomes are not functionally equivalent in term of their differen...Dear Editor,The development of all the mammalian species begins from fertilization of a sperm and an egg into a diploid state.The maternal and paternal genomes are not functionally equivalent in term of their differential contributions to the imprinting gene expressions,and they are complementary and both essential for embryonic and postnatal development(McGrath and Solter,1984;Surani et al.,1986).展开更多
基金This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China(Programs 91319308 and 31371516)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA01020101)。
文摘Dear Editor,The development of all the mammalian species begins from fertilization of a sperm and an egg into a diploid state.The maternal and paternal genomes are not functionally equivalent in term of their differential contributions to the imprinting gene expressions,and they are complementary and both essential for embryonic and postnatal development(McGrath and Solter,1984;Surani et al.,1986).
