Histone variant H3.3–mediated chromatin remodeling is essential for paternal genome activation in mouse preimplantation embryos

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Allelic reprogramming of the histone modification H3K4me3 in early mammalian development

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Human sperm chromatin epigenetic potential: genomics, proteomics, and male infertility

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Histone Variants and Epigenetics

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Zygotic Genome Activation During the Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition

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Maternal histone variants and their chaperones promote paternal genome activation and boost somatic cell reprogramming

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Hira-Mediated H3.3 Incorporation Is Required for DNA Replication and Ribosomal RNA Transcription in the Mouse Zygote

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Genome editing a mouse locus encoding a variant histone, H3.3B, to report on its expression in live animals

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Nucleosome assembly is required for nuclear pore complex assembly in mouse zygotes

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Histone variant H3.3 is an essential maternal factor for oocyte reprogramming

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H3.3 replacement facilitates epigenetic reprogramming of donor nuclei in somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos

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Understanding fertilization through intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

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Histone variant H3.3 maintains a decondensed chromatin state essential for mouse preimplantation development

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Inferring the choreography of parental genomes during fertilization from ultralarge-scale whole-transcriptome analysis

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Nanog, Pou5f1 and SoxB1 activate zygotic gene expression during the maternal-to-zygotic transition

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Restarting life: fertilization and the transition from meiosis to mitosis

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Generation of Genetically Modified Mice by Oocyte Injection of Androgenetic Haploid Embryonic Stem Cells

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Androgenetic haploid embryonic stem cells produce live transgenic mice

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HIRA dependent H3.3 deposition is required for transcriptional reprogramming following nuclear transfer to Xenopus oocytes

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Epigenetic reprogramming and development: a unique heterochromatin organization in the preimplantation mouse embryo

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Epigenetic inheritance of cell differentiation status

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The double face of the histone variant H3.3

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Epigenetic Patterns Maintained in Early Caenorhabditis elegans Embryos Can Be Established by Gene Activity in the Parental Germ Cells

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Heterochromatin formation in the mouse embryo requires critical residues of the histone variant H3.3

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Repressive and active histone methylation mark distinct promoters in human and mouse spermatozoa

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Distinctive chromatin in human sperm packages genes for embryo development

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mRNA-Seq whole-transcriptome analysis of a single cell

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Sperm-derived histones contribute to zygotic chromatin in humans

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Regulation of Maternal mRNAs in Early Development

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Erasure of the paternal transcription program during spermiogenesis: The first step in the reprogramming of sperm chromatin for zygotic development

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