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The epiallelic potential of transposable elements and its evolutionary significance in plants.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 7 Jun 2021
Baduel Pierre, Colot Vincent
Abstract excerpt
DNA provides the fundamental framework for heritability, yet heritable trait variation need not be completely 'hard-wired' into the DNA sequence. In plants, the epigenetic machinery that controls transposable element (TE) activity, and which includes DNA methylation, underpins most known cases of inherited trait variants that are independent of DNA sequence changes. Here, we review our current knowledge of the...
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