Parent-of-origin effects on seed development in Arabidopsis thaliana require DNA methylation.
Some genes in mammals and flowering plants are subject to parental imprinting, a process by which differential epigenetic marks are imposed on male and female gametes so that one set of alleles is silenced on chromosomes contributed by the mother while another is silenced on paternal chromosomes. Th...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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