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Comparative methylomics between domesticated and wild silkworms implies possible epigenetic influences on silkworm domestication.
BMC genomics - 23 Sept 2013
Xiang Hui, Li Xin, Dai Fangyin, Xu Xun, Tan Anjiang, Chen Lei, Zhang Guojie, Ding Yun, Li Qiye, Lian Jinmin, Willden Andrew, Guo Qiuhong, Xia Qingyou, Wang Jun, Wang Wen
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BACKGROUND: In contrast to wild species, which have typically evolved phenotypes over long periods of natural selection, domesticates rapidly gained human-preferred agronomic traits in a relatively short-time frame via artificial selection. Under domesticated conditions, many traits can be observed that cannot only be due to environmental alteration. In the case of silkworms, aside from genetic divergence,...
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