A Double Lock on Polyploidy-Associated Epigenetic Gene Silencing
Author(s) -
Nancy A. Eckardt
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.110.220112
Subject(s) - biology , epigenetics , gene silencing , genetics , gene , evolutionary biology , computational biology
Epigenetic gene silencing is an inheritable loss of gene expression due to modifications to DNA and chromatin that do not involve changes in DNA sequence. Such changes include methylation of DNA cytosine residues and posttranslational modifications to histones, such as acetylation, methylation,
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