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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2019 Jan 23;566(7742):105–109. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-0875-2

Figure 3 |. Gene conversion by an active genetic element was observed in the female germline and not in the male germline or in the early embryo.

Figure 3 |

Schematic representation of early embryonic and male and female germline development overlaid with the presence or absence of observed HDR. [PGCs: primordial germ cells, n: number of homologous chromosomes, c: chromosome copy number. Asterisk indicates the difference between male sperm (n, 1c) and female ovum, which remains (n, 2c) until second polar body extrusion after fertilization.]