The Physcomitrium patens egg cell expresses several distinct epigenetic components and utilizes homologues of BONOBO genes for cell specification

What is it about?

Several processes that are male germline-specific in the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana are active in the egg cell of the moss Physcomitrium patens. Among those were the moss BONOBO genes, which control proliferation and identity of both female and male germlines.

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