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Allelic expression of IGF2 in live-bearing, matrotrophic fishes.
Development genes and evolution - 1 Apr 2005
Lawton Betty R, Sevigny Leila, Obergfell Craig, Reznick David, O'Neill Rachel J, O'Neill Michael J
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The parental conflict, or kinship, theory of genomic imprinting predicts that parent-specific gene expression may evolve in species in which parental investment in developing offspring is unequal. This theory explains many aspects of parent-of-origin transcriptional silencing of embryonic growth regulatory genes in mammals, but it has not been tested in any other live-bearing, placental animals. A major embryonic...
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