Current Opinion in Genetics and Development
Current Opinion in Genetics and Development
5 years ago

Mapping the journey from totipotency to lineage specification in the mouse embryo

Understanding the past is to understand the present. Mammalian life, with all its complexity comes from a humble beginning of a single fertilized egg cell. Achieving this requires an enormous diversification of cellular function, the majority of which is generated through a series of cellular decisions during embryogenesis. The first decisions are made as the embryo prepares for implantation, a process that will require specialization of extra-embryonic lineages while preserving an embryonic one. In this mini-review, we will focus on the mouse as a mammalian model and discuss recent advances in the decision making process of the early embryo.

Publisher URL: www.sciencedirect.com/science

DOI: S0959437X15000854

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