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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 29.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Exp Med Biol. 2013;757:17–39. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4015-4_2

Fig. 2.1.

Fig. 2.1

Embryonic origin of the germline. Abbreviated embryonic lineage from the 1-cell stage to the ~88-cell stage and embryo schematics corresponding to each stage shown in the lineage tree. Germ plasm is denoted in purple, germ granules are darker purple dots. High levels of MEX-5/6 inherited by somatic blastomeres are denoted in blue. Red nuclei are not competent for mRNA transcription