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High-throughput Screening for Protein-based Inheritance in S. cerevisiae
Published on: August 8, 2017
[Epigenetic heredity in evolution]
1Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and of Ideas, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel.
Abstract:
We discuss the role of cell memory in heredity and evolution. We describe the properties of the epigenetic inheritance systems (EISs) that underlie cell memory and enable environmentally and developmentally induced cell phenotypes to be transmitted in cell lineages, and argue that transgenerational epigenetic inheritance is an important and neglected part of heredity. By looking at the part EISs have played in the evolution of multicellularity, ontogeny, chromosome organization, and the origin of some post-mating isolating mechanisms, we show how considering the role of epigenetic inheritance can sometimes shed light on major evolutionary processes.
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