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Intralocus Sexual Conflict Can Drive the Evolution of Genomic Imprinting
1 Aug 2004
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting is a phenomenon whereby the expression of an allele differs depending upon its parent of origin. There is an increasing number of examples of this form of epigenetic inheritance across a wide range of taxa, and imprinting errors have also been implicated in several human diseases. Various hypotheses have been put forward to explain the evolution of genomic imprinting, but there is not yet a...
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