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Genomic Imprinting in Plants

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Genomic Imprinting

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 626))

Abstract

Genomic imprinting attracted particular attention in the 1980’s following the discovery that the parental origin of genetic information is essential for normal development of eutherians1,2, for review see3. The term imprinting was first introduced in the 1960s to describe the elimination of the paternal chromosomes during spermatogenesis in the Sciarid fly4–6

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Garnier, O., Laouiellé-Duprat, S., Spillane, C. (2008). Genomic Imprinting in Plants. In: Wilkins, J.F. (eds) Genomic Imprinting. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 626. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77576-0_7

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