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    Investigation into the role of the germline epigenome in the transmission of glucocorticoid-programmed effects across generations

    Early life exposure to adverse environments affects cardiovascular and metabolic systems in the offspring. These programmed effects are transmissible to a second generation through both male and female lines, ...

    Jessy Cartier, Thomas Smith, John P. Thomson, Catherine M. Rose in Genome Biology (2018)

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    Evidence for conserved post-transcriptional roles of unitary pseudogenes and for frequent bifunctionality of mRNAs

    Recent reports have highlighted instances of mRNAs that, in addition to coding for protein, regulate the abundance of related transcripts by altering microRNA availability. These two mRNA roles - one mediated ...

    Ana C Marques, Jennifer Tan, Sheena Lee, Lesheng Kong, Andreas Heger in Genome Biology (2012)

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    Molecular evolution of genes in avian genomes

    Obtaining a draft genome sequence of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), the second bird genome to be sequenced, provides the necessary resource for whole-genome comparative analysis of gene sequence evolution...

    Kiwoong Nam, Carina Mugal, Benoit Nabholz, Holger Schielzeth in Genome Biology (2010)