Epigenetics: Imprinting in plants and mammals - the same but different?

Rod J Scott; M Spielman

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.022

Epigenetics: Imprinting in plants and mammals - the same but different?

Rod J Scott, M Spielman

Department of Life Sciences

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Abstract

Plants and animals both exhibit parental imprinting, but do they control it the same way? Recent studies show that in Arabidopsis, as in mammals, imprinted alleles are subject to DNA methylation - but, surprisingly, the default state is silence rather than activity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R201-R203
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	14
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2004.02.022
Publication status	Published - 2004

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