Environmentally induced DNA methylation is inherited across generations in an aquatic keystone species

Summary: Transgenerational inheritance of environmentally induced epigenetic marks can have significant impacts on eco-evolutionary dynamics, but the phenomenon remains controversial in ecological model systems. We used whole-genome bisulfite sequencing of individual water fleas (Daphnia magna) to a...

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Main Authors: Nathalie Feiner, Reinder Radersma, Louella Vasquez, Markus Ringnér, Björn Nystedt, Amanda Raine, Elmar W. Tobi, Bastiaan T. Heijmans, Tobias Uller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-05-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222005739