Periodic Reporting for period 2 - ZygoticFate (Zygotic Cell Fate and Parent-Biased Gene Expression in Fission Yeast)

Fertilization marks the beginning of new life in sexually reproducing organisms. Importantly, this moment when two haploid gametes (e.g. egg and sperm cells) fuse is also the time when the newly formed diploid cell switches fate and becomes a zygote. Gamete-to-zygote fate...