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SUBMITTER: Tabuchi TM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193031 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tabuchi Tomoko M TM Rechtsteiner Andreas A Jeffers Tess E TE Egelhofer Thea A TA Murphy Coleen T CT Strome Susan S
Nature communications 20181017 1
Paternal contributions to epigenetic inheritance are not well understood. Paternal contributions via marked nucleosomes are particularly understudied, in part because sperm in some organisms replace the majority of nucleosome packaging with protamine packaging. Here we report that in Caenorhabditis elegans sperm, the genome is packaged in nucleosomes and carries a histone-based epigenetic memory of genes expressed during spermatogenesis, which unexpectedly include genes well known for their expr ...[more]