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The pattern of effects of both maternal and paternal serum PCB concentrations were not materially affected by simultaneously adjusting for maternal and paternal PCB levels, although the confidence intervals became wider because there were only 76 couples for whom we had blood analyzed from both parents.
In males, the paternal genome is completely eliminated from most tissues very early in development—but it is never eliminated from the bacteriome.
This is because most armored scale insects have an unusual genetic system called embryonic paternal genome elimination (Herrick and Seger 1999).
We saw no effect of paternal serum PCB concentration on the odds of a male child (Figure 3b).
In ordinary animals, the other three nuclei (the polar bodies) degenerate—they never divide again and are lost or destroyed—and the oocyte is the single maternal cell that (after fusion with a single paternal cell, the spermatocyte) develops into the embryo.