Sentences with phrase «egg cells eliminate»
«Mothers and daughters: How starfish egg cells eliminate crucial structures to ensure the embryo will be viable.»
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The first complete, real - time recording of an egg cell eliminating its centrioles shows the starfish egg cell handles mature «mother» centrioles (green) differently from immature «daughter» centrioles (purple).
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So in animals, before an egg cell is fertilised by a sperm, its centrioles are eliminated, ensuring that the resulting embryo receives only the sperm's centrioles.
To investigate how the egg cell manages to rid itself of such a resilient structure, Joana Pinto, a PhD student in the Lénárt lab, developed fluorescent tags for mother and daughter centrioles in a starfish egg cell and recorded the entire process of eliminating them.