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Environmentally selected aphid variants in clonality context display differential patterns of methylation in the genome.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Pasquier Claude, Clément Mathilde, Dombrovsky Aviv, Penaud Stéphanie, Da Rocha Martine, Rancurel Corinne, Ledger Neil, Capovilla Maria, Robichon Alain
Abstract excerpt
Heritability of acquired phenotypic traits is an adaptive evolutionary process that appears more complex than the basic allele selection guided by environmental pressure. In insects, the trans-generational transmission of epigenetic marks in clonal and/or sexual species is poorly documented. Aphids were used as a model to explore this feature because their asexual phase generates a stochastic and/or...
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