ArticleGenetics2004
Intralocus sexual conflict can drive the evolution of genomic imprinting.
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- Cell-cell communication-mediated cell-type-specific parent-of-origin effects in mammals.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- On the resolution of sexual conflict over shared traits.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Multivariate genetic architecture reveals testosterone-driven sexual antagonism in contemporary humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Environmental and Genetic Traffic in the Journey from Sperm to Offspring.Biomolecules · 2023Review
- Sexual conflict, heterochrony and tissue specificity as evolutionary problems of adaptive plasticity in development.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Epigenetic opportunities for evolutionary computation.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Imprinted Genes: Genomic Conservation, Transcriptomic Dynamics and Phenomic Significance in Health and Diseases.International journal of biological sciences · 2023Review
- Conservation Study of Imprinted Genes in Maize Triparental Heterozygotic Kernels.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Paternally expressed gene 3 (Pw1/Peg3) promotes sexual dimorphism in metabolism and behavior.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Imprinted lncRNA Dio3os preprograms intergenerational brown fat development and obesity resistance.Nature communications · 2021Article
- The genetic architecture of sexual dimorphism in the mossProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Density-dependent sex-biased development of macroptery in a water strider.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
Genomic imprinting is a phenomenon whereby the expression of an allele differs depending upon its parent of origin. There is an increasing number of examples of this form of epigenetic inheritance across a wide range of taxa, and imprinting errors have also been implicated in several human diseases. Various hypotheses have been put forward to explain the evolution of genomic imprinting, but there is not yet a widely accepted general hypothesis for the variety of imprinting patterns observed. Here a new evolutionary hypothesis, based on intralocus sexual conflict, is proposed. This hypothesis provides a potential explanation for much of the currently available empirical data, and it also makes new predictions about patterns of genomic imprinting that are expected to evolve but that have not, as of yet, been looked for in nature. This theory also provides a potential mechanism for the resolution of intralocus sexual conflict in sexually selected traits and a novel pathway for the evolution of sexual dimorphism.
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