Evolution of vertebrate sex chromosomes and dosage compensation

JAM Graves - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Differentiated sex chromosomes in mammals and other vertebrates evolved independently
but in strikingly similar ways. Vertebrates with differentiated sex chromosomes share the …

Epithelial ovarian cancer experimental models

E Lengyel, JE Burdette, HA Kenny, D Matei, J Pilrose… - Oncogene, 2014 - nature.com
Epithelial ovarian cancer (OvCa) is associated with high mortality and, as the majority (>
75%) of women with OvCa have metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis, rates of survival …

高通量测序技术在动植物研究领域中的应用

岳桂东, 高强, 罗龙海, 王军一, 许姣卉, 尹烨 - 中国科学: 生命科学, 2012 - cqvip.com
高通量测序是核酸测序研究的一次革命性技术创新, 该技术以极低的单碱基测序成本和超高的
数据产出量为特征, 为基因组学和后基因组学研究带来了新的科研方法和解决方案 …

An ecologist's guide for studying DNA methylation variation in wild vertebrates

VN Laine, B Sepers, M Lindner… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of molecular biology is advancing fast with new powerful technologies, sequencing
methods and analysis software being developed constantly. Commonly used tools originally …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetics and inheritance of phenotype variation in livestock

KA Triantaphyllopoulos, I Ikonomopoulos… - Epigenetics & …, 2016 - Springer
Epigenetic inheritance plays a crucial role in many biological processes, such as gene
expression in early embryo development, imprinting and the silencing of transposons. It has …

[HTML][HTML] Chicken embryo as a model in epigenetic research

M Bednarczyk, A Dunislawska, K Stadnicka… - Poultry Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Epigenetics is defined as the study of changes in gene function that are mitotically or
meiotically heritable and do not lead to a change in DNA sequence. Epigenetic …

Patterns of DNA methylation in animals: an ecotoxicological perspective

JA Head - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation refers to the addition of a methyl group to nucleotides within DNA. As with
other epigenetic endpoints, patterns of DNA methylation are susceptible to alterations due to …

The genetics and epigenetics of animal migration and orientation: birds, butterflies and beyond

C Merlin, M Liedvogel - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Migration is a complex behavioural adaptation for survival that has evolved across the
animal kingdom from invertebrates to mammals. In some taxa, closely related migratory …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring animal age with DNA methylation: From humans to wild animals

R De Paoli-Iseppi, BE Deagle, CR McMahon… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
DNA methylation (DNAm) is a key mechanism for regulating gene expression in animals
and levels are known to change with age. Recent studies have used DNAm changes as a …

DNA methylation, epigenetics, and evolution in vertebrates: facts and challenges

A Varriale - International journal of evolutionary biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation is a key epigenetic modification in the vertebrate genomes known to be
involved in biological processes such as regulation of gene expression, DNA structure and …