Natural Selection and the Evolution of Genome Imprinting

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2003, Pages 349-370

  De La Casa Esperón, Elena ^a   Sapienza, Carmen ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetic; Imprinting; Meiotic pairing; Natural selection; Parental origin effects; Recombination

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0346155804     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.37.110801.143741     Document Type: Review

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