2017
Purification of Zygotically Transcribed RNA through Metabolic Labeling of Early Zebrafish Embryos
Heyn P, Neugebauer KM. Purification of Zygotically Transcribed RNA through Metabolic Labeling of Early Zebrafish Embryos. Methods In Molecular Biology 2017, 1605: 121-131. PMID: 28456961, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6988-3_8.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2014
The Earliest Transcribed Zygotic Genes Are Short, Newly Evolved, and Different across Species
Heyn P, Kircher M, Dahl A, Kelso J, Tomancak P, Kalinka AT, Neugebauer KM. The Earliest Transcribed Zygotic Genes Are Short, Newly Evolved, and Different across Species. Cell Reports 2014, 6: 285-292. PMID: 24440719, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.12.030.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsZygotic genome activationZygotic genesEarly zygotic transcriptsOne-cell stageSignificant transcriptional activityRapid cell divisionComparison of fishGenome activationMitochondrial genomePurification of RNAZygotic controlEvolutionary plasticityMulticellular organismsNuclear genesZygotic transcriptsEarly embryogenesisShort genesDanio rerioAdaptive potentialCell divisionTranscriptional activityMetabolic labelingCell cycleEarly genesGenes