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Do social insects support Haig's kin theory for the evolution of genomic imprinting?

Although numerous imprinted genes have been described in several lineages, the phenomenon of genomic imprinting presents a peculiar evolutionary problem. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain gene imprinting, the most supported being Haig's kinship theory. This theory explains the ob...

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Autores principales: Pegoraro, Mirko, Marshall, Hollie, Lonsdale, Zoë N., Mallon, Eamonn B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5739101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28703654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2017.1348445