Preventing aneuploidy: The groom must wait until the bride is ready

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Verlhac, Marie-Hélène

Edité par CCSD ; Rockefeller University Press -

International audience. Fertilization often triggers the final step of haploidization of the female gamete genome. In this issue, Mori et al. (2021. J. Cell Biol.https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202012001) identify two successive actin-dependent mechanisms that delay fusion of maternal and paternal chromosomes, preventing inadvertent elimination of paternal chromosomes together with maternal ones.

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