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How demography, life history, and kinship shape the evolution of genomic imprinting.
The American naturalist - 1 Oct 2010
Van Cleve Jeremy, Feldman Marcus W, Lehmann Laurent
Abstract excerpt
How phenomena like helping, dispersal, or the sex ratio evolve depends critically on demographic and life-history factors. One phenotype that is of particular interest to biologists is genomic imprinting, which results in parent-of-origin-specific gene expression and thus deviates from the predictions of Mendel's rules. The most prominent explanation for the evolution of genomic imprinting, the kinship theory,...
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