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Epigenetics

Keeping one's sex

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Progeny of the protist Paramecium tetraurelia always retain the parental mating type. This inheritance is revealed to result from an RNA-guided DNA-deletion pathway that protects the genome from foreign DNA sequences. See Article p.447

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Figure 1: Epigenetic inheritance of mating type.

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