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DNA methylation reprogramming, TE derepression, and postzygotic isolation of nascent animal species.
Science advances - 1 Oct 2019
Laporte M, Le Luyer J, Rougeux C, Dion-Côté A-M, Krick M, Bernatchez L
Abstract excerpt
The genomic shock hypothesis stipulates that the stress associated with divergent genome admixture can cause transposable element (TE) derepression, which could act as a postzygotic isolation mechanism. TEs affect gene structure, expression patterns, and chromosome organization and may have deleterious consequences when released. For these reasons, they are silenced by heterochromatin formation, which includes...
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