In vertebrates, primordial germ cells — the ancestors of germ cells — can arise from one of two species-specific processes: epigenesis (that is, from pluripotent cells through induction by somatic ...

PROBABLY many readers of the recent discussion on the transmission of acquired characters will regret that a more definite conclusion has not been arrived at. This is probably due to the fact that the ...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 95, No. 19 (Sep. 15, 1998), pp. 11274-11278 (5 pages) In Drosophila, pole cells, the progenitors of the germ line, ...