zygote

Key facts

Embryology.Name

Zygote

Embryology.Image

Zygote1.jpg

Embryology.Caption

Zygote formation: egg cell after fertilization with a sperm. The male and female pronuclei are converging, but the genetic material is not yet united.

Embryology.Days

0

Embryology.Precursor

Gametes

Embryology.GivesRiseTo

Blastomeres

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• Plant zygote development: recent insights and applications to clonal seeds.ReviewCurrent opinion in plant biology · 2021Khanday I, Sundaresan VDOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2020.101993
• OBOX regulates mouse zygotic genome activation and early development.Nature · 2023Ji S, Chen F, Stein P et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06428-3
• Chromatin accessibility landscape of mouse early embryos revealed by single-cell NanoATAC-seq2.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Li M, Jiang Z, Xu X et al.DOI: 10.1126/science.adp4319
• Zygote cryobanking applied to CRISPR/Cas9 microinjection in mice.PloS one · 2024Schlapp G, Meikle MN, Pórfido JL et al.DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0306617
• Function of atypical mammalian oocyte/zygote nucleoli and its implications for reproductive biology and medicine.ReviewThe International journal of developmental biology · 2019Fulka JJ, Benc M, Loi P et al.DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.180329jf
• Capturing totipotency in human cells through spliceosomal repression.Cell · 2024Li S, Yang M, Shen H et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.010
• How can zygotes segregate entire parental genomes into distinct blastomeres? The zygote metaphase revisited.ReviewBioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2017Destouni A, Vermeesch JRDOI: 10.1002/bies.201600226
• Allelic reprogramming of the histone modification H3K4me3 in early mammalian development.Nature · 2016Zhang B, Zheng H, Huang B et al.DOI: 10.1038/nature19361

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Wikidata facts

Followed by

morula

Follows

sperm

Image

Zygote1.jpg

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