Hypoxia causes transgenerational impairments in reproduction of fish

Autor: Simon Yuan Wang, Karen Lau, Keng-Po Lai, Jiang-Wen Zhang, Anna Chung-Kwan Tse, Jing-Woei Li, Yin Tong, Ting-Fung Chan, Chris Kong-Chu Wong, Jill Man-Ying Chiu, Doris Wai-Ting Au, Alice Sze-Tsai Wong, Richard Yuen-Chong Kong, Rudolf Shiu-Sun Wu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12114
Popis: Hypoxia has diverse effects on aquatic life. Wang et al.show that reproductive defects resulting from hypoxia are epigenetically heritable in Japanese rice fish, and that this intergenerational inheritance is accompanied by differential methylation and gene expression in sperm.
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