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The evolution of imprinting in plants: beyond the seed.
Plant reproduction - 1 Dec 2021
Montgomery Sean A, Berger Frédéric
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting results in the biased expression of alleles depending on if the allele was inherited from the mother or the father. Despite the prevalence of sexual reproduction across eukaryotes, imprinting is only found in placental mammals, flowering plants, and some insects, suggesting independent evolutionary origins. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed to explain the selective pressures that favour...
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