reproductive system
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• mutant females are sterile
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cellular
• fertilized oocytes derived from mutant females are arrested at the 1- or 2-cell stage
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homeostasis/metabolism
• maternal transcripts that are normally degraded during oocyte maturation are stabilized in mutant oocytes and zygotes, indicating that BTG4 functions through the CCR4NOT deadenylase in triggering decay of maternal mRNA
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