Epigenetic Inheritance: What News for Evolution?

Overview

Journal Curr Biol

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2012 Jan 28

PMID 22280908

Citations 6

Authors

Ben Hunter

Jesse D Hollister

Kirsten Bomblies

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Abstract

Whether epigenetic variation is important in adaptive evolution has been contentious. Two recent studies in Arabidopsis thaliana significantly add to our understanding of genome-wide variation and stability of an epigenetic mark, and thus help pave the path for realistically incorporating epigenetics into evolutionary theory.

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