Epigenetic phenomena in filamentous fungi: useful paradigms or repeat-induced confusion?

doi:10.1016/s0168-9525(97)01201-8

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Epigenetic phenomena in filamentous fungi: useful paradigms or repeat-induced confusion?

Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Aug 1997

Selker E U

Abstract excerpt

Epigenetic mechanisms can serve as genome defense systems. In haploid nuclei of special sexual cells of fungi, such as Neurospora and Ascobolus, duplicated genes are silenced by hypermutation, DNA methylation, or both. In some cases, DNA introduced into the genome of Neurospora cells by transform...

Topics

Animals
Ascomycota
DNA Methylation
Drosophila
Fungal Proteins
Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
Gene Rearrangement
Mutation
Neurospora
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Transcription Factors

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