egg cells

(Rockefeller University Press) A cell decides what proteins to make based on the messages it receives from its genome.

Sometimes messages are held back to be read later, and in most cell types these delayed messages are stored and marked for destruction in P bodies.

P bodies in worm egg cells, however, are message protectors, according to a paper by Boag et al. appearing in the Aug. 11 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.