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Quantitative Genetics Identifies Cryptic Genetic Variation Involved in the Paternal Regulation of Seed Development.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2016
Pires Nuno D, Bemer Marian, Müller Lena M, Baroux Célia, Spillane Charles, Grossniklaus Ueli
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Embryonic development requires a correct balancing of maternal and paternal genetic information. This balance is mediated by genomic imprinting, an epigenetic mechanism that leads to parent-of-origin-dependent gene expression. The parental conflict (or kinship) theory proposes that imprinting can evolve due to a conflict between maternal and paternal alleles over resource allocation during seed development. One...
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