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Equal-parenting policy

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During early embryo development in animals, maternal genes are expressed in preference to those of the zygote — the newly fertilized egg. But in plants it seems that zygote genomes switch on within hours of fertilization. See Letter p.94

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Figure 1: Maternal-to-zygotic genomic transition in plants and animals.

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  1. *This article and the paper3 under discussion were published online on 22 January 2012.

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  1. Christopher J. Hale is in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.,

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  2. Steven E. Jacobsen is at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.,

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