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The role of methylation of DNA in environmental adaptation.

Integrative and comparative biology - 1 Aug 2013

Flores Kevin B, Wolschin Florian, Amdam Gro V

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Methylation of DNA is an epigenetic mechanism that influences patterns of gene expression. DNA methylation marks contribute to adaptive phenotypic variation but are erased during development. The role of DNA methylation in adaptive evolution is therefore unclear. We propose that environmentally-induced DNA methylation causes phenotypic heterogeneity that provides a substrate for selection via forces that act on...

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PMID: 23620251
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict019
PMCID: PMC3710460

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