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Aberrant imprinting may underlie evolution of parthenogenesis
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Aberrant imprinting may underlie evolution of parthenogenesis

Olga Kirioukhova, Jubin N Shah, Danae S Larsen, Muhammad Tayyab, Nora E Mueller, Geetha Govind, Celia Baroux, Michael Federer, Jacqueline Gheyselinck, Philippa J Barrell, …
Scientific Reports, Vol.8, 10626
2018
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Abstract

Genomic imprinting confers parent-of-origin-specific gene expression, thus non-equivalent and complementary function of parental genomes. As a consequence, genomic imprinting poses an epigenetic barrier to parthenogenesis in sexual organisms. We report aberrant imprinting in Boechera, a genus in which apomicts evolved from sexuals multiple times. Maternal activation of a MADS-box gene, a homolog of which is imprinted and paternally expressed in the sexual relative Arabidopsis, is accompanied by locus-specific DNA methylation changes in apomicts where parental imprinting seems to be relaxed. © 2018 The Author(s).

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