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Migration phenology and breeding success are predicted by methylation of a photoperiodic gene in the barn swallow.
Scientific reports - 31 Mar 2017
Saino Nicola, Ambrosini Roberto, Albetti Benedetta, Caprioli Manuela, De Giorgio Barbara, Gatti Emanuele, Liechti Felix, Parolini Marco, Romano Andrea, Romano Maria, Scandolara Chiara, Gianfranceschi Luca, Bollati Valentina, Rubolini Diego
Abstract excerpt
Individuals often considerably differ in the timing of their life-cycle events, with major consequences for individual fitness, and, ultimately, for population dynamics. Phenological variation can arise from genetic effects but also from epigenetic modifications in DNA expression and translation. Here, we tested if CpG methylation at the poly-Q and 5'-UTR loci of the photoperiodic Clock gene predicted migration...
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