Epigenetic inheritance and genome regulation: is DNA methylation linked to ploidy in haplodiploid insects?
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Epigenetic inheritance and genome regulation: is DNA methylation linked to ploidy in haplodiploid insects?
Organisms show great variation in ploidy level. For example, chromosome copy number varies among cells, individuals and species. One particularly widespread example of ploidy variation is found in haplodiploid taxa, wherein males are typically haploid and females are typically diploid. Despite the prevalence of haplodiploidy, the regulatory consequences of having separate haploid and diploid ge...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0411