Many well-studied maternal developmental pathways that are required for embryonic development in Drosophila are regulated by the transcription factor OVO in the Drosophila female germline.
To maintain genomic integrity during oocyte development, the tumor suppressor BRCA1/BRC-1 and the SMC-5/6 complex both repress intersister crossover recombination events while BRCA1/BRC-1 also specifically inhibits error prone repair of DNA breaks during meiotic prophase I.
MYCN and TFIIIC exert a censoring function during early transcription, limiting the accumulation of inactive RNAPII at the promoter and facilitating promoter-proximal degradation of nascent RNA.