Maternal function of a retroviral-type z
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McNeil, Gerard P. ;Zhang, Xiaolan ;Roberts, Mary ;Jackson, F. Rob
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Previous studies have shown that zygotic expression of the Drosophila lark gene, which encodes an RNA-binding protein, is essential for embryogenesis. We now show that lark mRNA is abundant in preblastoderm (0-2 h) embryos, prior to zygotic transcription, indicative of maternal inheritance. Lark can