Hypoxia causes transgenerational impairments in reproduction of fish

Hypoxia has diverse effects on aquatic life. Wang et al.show that reproductive defects resulting from hypoxia are epigenetically heritable in Japanese rice fish, and that this intergenerational inheritance is accompanied by differential methylation and gene expression in sperm.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Simon Yuan Wang, Karen Lau, Keng-Po Lai, Jiang-Wen Zhang, Anna Chung-Kwan Tse, Jing-Woei Li, Yin Tong, Ting-Fung Chan, Chris Kong-Chu Wong, Jill Man-Ying Chiu, Doris Wai-Ting Au, Alice Sze-Tsai Wong, Richard Yuen-Chong Kong, Rudolf Shiu-Sun Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12114