Epimutations and mutations, nurturing phenotypic diversity

Non-perfectly matching small RNAs can induce stable and heritable epigenetic modifications and can be used as molecular markers to trace the origin and fate of silencing RNAs

(2021) Yue Fei et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Methylation Status of Arabidopsis DNA Repair Gene Promoters During Agrobacterium Infection Reveals Epigenetic Changes in Three Generations

(2021) T. Joyous Joseph et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTER

Rapid speciation via the evolution of pre-mating isolation in the Iberá Seedeater

(2021) Sheela P. Turbek et al.   SCIENCE

Epigenetic modification of ESP, encoding a putative long noncoding RNA, affects panicle architecture in rice

(2019) Xin Luan et al.   Rice

RNA-Dependent Epigenetic Silencing Directs Transcriptional Downregulation Caused by Intronic Repeat Expansions

(2018) Hannes Eimer et al.   CELL

Functions and mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance in animals

(2018) Ksenia Skvortsova et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Epigenetics of Modified DNA Bases: 5-Methylcytosine and Beyond

(2018) Suresh Kumar et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Multitasking by Polycomb response elements

(2017) Elizabeth S. Jaensch et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Unique roles for histone H3K9me states in RNAi and heritable silencing of transcription

(2017) Gloria Jih et al.   NATURE

Stable Polycomb-dependent transgenerational inheritance of chromatin states in Drosophila

(2017) Filippo Ciabrelli et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A natural tandem array alleviates epigenetic repression of IPA1 and leads to superior yielding rice

(2017) Lin Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Plant Transgenerational Epigenetics

(2016) Leandro Quadrana et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Spontaneous chloroplast mutants mostly occur by replication slippage and show a biased pattern in the plastome of Oenothera

(2016) Amid Massouh et al.   PLANT CELL

Defining the criteria for identifying constitutional epimutations

(2016) Mathew A. Sloane et al.   Clinical Epigenetics

Hyperosmotic stress memory in Arabidopsis is mediated by distinct epigenetically labile sites in the genome and is restricted in the male germline by DNA glycosylase activity

(2016) Anjar Wibowo et al.   eLife

The Polycomb Group Protein Regulatory Network

(2015) Iva Mozgova et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Epigenetic and developmental regulation in plant polyploids

(2015) Qingxin Song et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Environmental Epigenetics and a Unified Theory of the Molecular Aspects of Evolution: A Neo-Lamarckian Concept that Facilitates Neo-Darwinian Evolution

(2015) M. K. Skinner   Genome Biology and Evolution

The inheritance of acquired epigenetic variations: Table 1.

(2015) Eva Jablonka et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

A review of transgenerational epigenetics for RNAi, longevity, germline maintenance and olfactory imprinting in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2015) C. H. Rankin   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

ICE1demethylation drives the range expansion of a plant invader through cold tolerance divergence

(2015) H. J. Xie et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm

(2015) Meilina Ong-Abdullah et al.   NATURE

The origins of reproductive isolation in plants

(2015) Eric Baack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evolutionary Consequences of DNA Methylation on the GC Content in Vertebrate Genomes

(2015) Carina F. Mugal et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Global DNA cytosine methylation as an evolving trait: phylogenetic signal and correlated evolution with genome size in angiosperms

(2015) Conchita Alonso et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Noncoding RNAs and Epigenetic Mechanisms During X-Chromosome Inactivation

(2014) Anne-Valerie Gendrel et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Myths and Mechanisms

(2014) Edith Heard et al.   CELL

Epigenetics and the Evolution of Darwin’s Finches

(2014) Michael K. Skinner et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Environmentally responsive genome-wide accumulation of de novoArabidopsis thalianamutations and epimutations

(2014) Caifu Jiang et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Identification of genes preventing transgenerational transmission of stress-induced epigenetic states

(2014) M. Iwasaki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the meaning of the word ‘epimutation’

(2014) H. Oey et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Natural occurring epialleles determine vitamin E accumulation in tomato fruits

(2014) Leandro Quadrana et al.   Nature Communications

Genomic Imprinting: Insights From Plants

(2013) Mary Gehring   Annual Review of Genetics

Patterns of population epigenomic diversity

(2013) Robert J. Schmitz et al.   NATURE

Extensive Natural Epigenetic Variation at a De Novo Originated Gene

(2013) Amanda Bortolini Silveira et al.   PLoS Genetics

Epigenetics and the environment: emerging patterns and implications

(2012) Robert Feil et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Genomic imprinting in mammals: its life cycle, molecular mechanisms and reprogramming

(2011) Yufeng Li et al.   CELL RESEARCH

Paramutation: Just a Curiosity or Fine Tuning of Gene Expression in the Next Generation?

(2011) Roberto Pilu   CURRENT GENOMICS

Variable histone modifications at the Avymetastable epiallele

(2011) Dana C. Dolinoy et al.   Epigenetics

Roles of Mutation and Selection in Speciation: From Hugo de Vries to the Modern Genomic Era

(2011) Masatoshi Nei et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Next-Generation Systemic Acquired Resistance

(2011) E. Luna et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Substitution rate variation at human CpG sites correlates with non-CpG divergence, methylation level and GC content

(2011) Carina F Mugal et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Transgenerational Inheritance and Resetting of Stress-Induced Loss of Epigenetic Gene Silencing in Arabidopsis

(2010) Christina Lang-Mladek et al.   Molecular Plant

Mechanisms of trinucleotide repeat instability during human development

(2010) Cynthia T. McMurray   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Tobacco Mosaic Virus Infection Results in an Increase in Recombination Frequency and Resistance to Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Pathogens in the Progeny of Infected Tobacco Plants

(2010) P. Kathiria et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Conservation and divergence of methylation patterning in plants and animals

(2010) S. Feng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Epigenetics in the Extreme: Prions and the Inheritance of Environmentally Acquired Traits

(2010) Randal Halfmann et al.   SCIENCE

A transposon-induced epigenetic change leads to sex determination in melon

(2009) Antoine Martin et al.   NATURE

A metastable DWARF1 epigenetic mutant affecting plant stature in rice

(2009) K. Miura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resetting of FLOWERING LOCUS C expression after epigenetic repression by vernalization

(2008) C. C. Sheldon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA