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Bo Fu1,2, Hong Ma3,4, Di Liu5,6

  • 1Institute of Animal Husbandry Research, HeiLongJiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150086, China. fubohao810@163.com.

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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PubMed
Summary

Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) play a crucial role in zygotic genome activation (ZGA) during early embryo development. Understanding ERV regulation may unlock solutions for somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) embryo developmental failures.

Keywords:
endogenous retrovirusesepigenetic reprogrammingpre-implantation embryosomatic cell nuclear transferzygotic genome activation

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