ReviewJournal of biosciences2021
Epigenetic variation in animal populations: Sources, extent, phenotypic implications, and ecological and evolutionary relevance.
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- Polyphenism Through RNA Chemical Modifications.Molecular ecology · 2026Review
- Integration of epigenetics into ecotoxicology: insights and fundamental research needs.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance increases trait variation but is not adaptive.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2025Article
- Gene body methylation evolves during the sustained loss of parental care in the burying beetle.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance increases trait variation but is not adaptive.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Epigenetic and Genetic Differentiation Between Coregonus Species Pairs.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Mixed Patterns of Intergenerational DNA Methylation Inheritance in Acropora.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- To live or let die? Epigenetic adaptations to climate change-a review.Environmental epigenetics · 2024Review
- The genomic landscape of mammal domestication might be orchestrated by selected transcription factors regulating brain and craniofacial development.Development genes and evolution · 2023Article
- Comparison between indicine and taurine cattle DNA methylation reveals epigenetic variation associated to differences in morphological adaptive traits.Epigenetics · 2023Article
- Involvement of Inheritance in Determining Telomere Length beyond Environmental and Lifestyle Factors.Aging and disease · 2023Review
- From maternal glucocorticoid and thyroid hormones to epigenetic regulation of offspring gene expression: An experimental study in a wild bird species.Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
- Phenotypic plasticity in the monoclonal marbled crayfish is associated with very low genetic diversity but pronounced epigenetic diversity.Current zoology · 2023Article
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- ChIP-seq profiling of H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 in an invasive insect,Frontiers in genetics · 2023Article
- Extraction of soybean plant trait parameters based on SfM-MVS algorithm combined with GRNN.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Environmental Adaptation of Genetically Uniform Organisms with the Help of Epigenetic Mechanisms-An Insightful Perspective on Ecoepigenetics.Epigenomes · 2022Review
- Population Epigenetics: The Extent of DNA Methylation Variation in Wild Animal Populations.Epigenomes · 2022Review
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- Studying phenotypic variation and DNA methylation across development, ecology and evolution in the clonal marbled crayfish: a paradigm for investigating epigenotype-phenotype relationships in macro-invertebrates.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2022Review
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Abstract
Laboratory experiments and fieldwork with asexually reproducing invertebrates and vertebrates clearly revealed that animal populations can produce substantial phenotypic variation despite genetic identity. This epigenetically caused phenotypic variation comes from two different sources, namely directional environmental induction and bed-hedging developmental stochasticity. Both occur together and are mediated by molecular epigenetic mechanisms like DNA methylation, histone modifications and microRNAs. These epigenetic mechanisms are also involved in insect polyphenism, phenotypic changes in early domestication, and gene expression change and chromatin rearrangement during speciation. Epigenetic variation is particularly important for asexual populations helping them to stay in the game of life when the environmental conditions change. However, it is also relevant for sexually reproducing populations, as shown for genetically impoverished invasive groups, cave animals and sessile taxa that cannot evade unfavourable environmental conditions. Experiments revealed that epigenetic marks can be transgenerationally inherited and persist for several generations. First evidence suggests that inherited epimutations with phenotypic effects may end-up in phenotype-fixing genetic mutations by accelerated mutation of methylated nucleotides. Refined concepts, suitable animal models, fast and affordable new omics techniques that require only small tissue samples, and appropriate data interpretation tools are now available enabling future investigations in ecological and evolutionary epigenetics with high accuracy.
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