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Special issues:

• "The Enigmatic Role of DNA Methylation in Invertebrates" Submissions

• "Epigenetic Mechanisms for Plant Gene Regulation": Submissions  

• " Epigenetics and Adaptation " (2018-2019)
   

Recent publications:

• DNA methylation predicts age and provides insight into exceptional longevity of bats .
  Wilkinson GS, Adams DM, Haghani A, Lu AT, Zoller J, Breeze CE, Arnold BD, Ball HC, Carter GG, Cooper LN, Dechmann DKN, Devanna P, Fasel NJ, Galazyuk AV, Günther L, Hurme E, Jones G , Knörnschild M, Lattenkamp EZ, Li CZ, Mayer F, Reinhardt JA, Medellin RA, Nagy M, Pope B, Power ML, Ransome RD, Teeling EC, Vernes SC, Zamora-Mejías D, Zhang J, Faure PA, Greville LJ , Horvath S. Nat Commun. 2021 Mar 12; 12 (1): 1615.

• Intergenerational transfer of DNA methylation marks in the honey bee.
  Yagound B, Remnant EJ, Buchmann G, Oldroyd BP. Proc Natl Acad Sci US A. 2020 Nov 30: 202017094. doi: 10.1073 / pnas.2017094117.

• Recalibrating the epigenetic clock: implications for assessing biological age in the human cortex
  Gemma L Shireby, Jonathan P Davies, Paul T Francis, Joe Burrage, Emma M Walker, Grant WA Neilson, Aisha Dahir, Alan J Thomas, Seth Love, Rebecca G Smith, Katie Lunnon, Meena Kumari, Leonard C Schalkwyk, Kevin Morgan, Keeley Brookes, Eilis Hannon, Jonathan Mill,, Brain (2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa334

• Epigenetic gene silencing by heterochromatin prime fungal resistance.

    Torres-Garcia, S., Yaseen, I., Shukla, M. et al. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2706-x

• DNA methylation patterns respond to thermal stress in the viviparous cockroach Diploptera punctata. 
  Villalba de la Peña M, Piskobulu V, Murgatroyd C, Hager R. Epigenetics. 2020 Jul 25. doi: 10.1080 / 15592294.2020.1795603.  

• Rapid epigenetic adaptation in animals and its role in invasiveness.
  Carneiro VC, Lyko F. Integr Comp Biol. 2020 Apr 25. pii: icaa023. doi: 10.1093 / icb / icaa023.

• What's in a name? The three genealogies of the social in social epigenetics.  

     Louvel, S. (2020). Social Science Information.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0539018419897001

• Epigenetics in the Public Sphere; interdisciplinary perspectives.

     Dubois , M. Louvel, S. Guaspare , C., Le Goff, A. and Allard, P.  Environmental Epigenetics, Volume 5, Issue 4, October 2019, dvz019,  

    https://doi.org/10.1093/eep/dvz019

• The concept of the hologenome, an epigenetic phenomenon, challenges aspects of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  Collens A, Kelley E, Katz LA. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2019 Nov 11. doi: 10.1002 / jez.b.22915.  

• DNA Methylation: Toward Crop Disease Resistance Improvement.

  Tirnaz S, Batley J. Trends Plant Sci. 2019 Oct 8.pii: S1360-1385 (19) 30220-1. doi: 10.1016 / j.tplants.2019.08.007

• Epigenetic variation for agronomic improvement: an opportunity for vegetatively propagated crops.
  Latutrie M, Gourcilleau D, Pujol B. Am J Bot. 2019 Sep 10. doi: 10.1002 / ajb2.1357

• (In) exhaustible Suppliers for Evolution? Epistatic Selection Tunes the Adaptive Potential of Nongenetic Inheritance.
  Rajon E, Charlat S. Am Nat. 2019 Oct; 194 (4): 470-481. doi: 10.1086 / 704772.

• Advances in epigenetics link genetics to the environment and disease.

    Cavalli G , Heard E. Nature. 2019 Jul; 571 (7766): 489-499. doi: 10.1038 / s41586-019-1411-0.  Review .

• A role for epigenetic adaption in evolution.
  Yahara I. Genes Cells. 2019 Jul 4.doi: 10.1111 / gtc.12709.  

• Investigating the evolution and development of biological complexity under the framework of epigenetics.
  Duclos KK, Hendrikse JL, Jamniczky HA. Evol Dev. 2019 Jul 3: e12301. doi: 10.1111 / ede.12301.

• Interplay of Darwinian Selection, Lamarckian Induction and Microvesicle Transfer on Drug Resistance in Cancer .
  Álvarez-Arenas A, Podolski-Renic A, Belmonte-Beitia J, Pesic M, Calvo GF. Sci Rep. 2019 Jun 27; 9 (1): 9332.

• Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance: possible evolutionary implications.
  Sarkies P. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2019 Jun 19. pii: S1084-9521 (18) 30148-4. doi: 10.1016 / j.semcdb.2019.06.005. [Epub ahead of print] Review.

• Waddington's epigenetics or the pictorial meetings of development and genetics. 
  Nicoglou A. Hist Philos Life Sci. 2018 Sep 27; 40 (4): 61. doi: 10.1007 / s40656-018-0228-8.

• The epigenetic signature of colonizing new environments in Anolis lizards . 
  Hu J, Askary AM, Thurman TJ, Spiller DA, Palmer TM, Pringle RM, Barrett RDH.Mol Biol Evol. 2019 May 30. pii: msz133. doi: 10.1093 / molbev / msz133.  

• Ar chaeal Histone Contributions to the Origin of Eukaryotes .

    Brunk CF, Martin WF.

    Trends Microbiol. 2019 May 7.pii: S0966-842X (-19) 30095-2. doi: https: //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31076245

• Genome ‐ wide analysis of DNA methylation in relation to socioeconomic status during development and early adulthood.

  Thomas W. McDade, Calen P. Ryan, Meaghan J. Jones, Morgan K. Hoke, Judith Borja, Gregory E. Miller, Christopher W. Kuzawa, Michael S. Kobor. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2019; 169 (1):

• RnBeads 2.0: comprehensive analysis of DNA methylation data.  ​

  Müller, F., Scherer, M., Assenov, Y., Lutsik, P., Walter, J., Lengauer, T. and Bock, C. (2019) Genome Biology 20, 55.

• Transient Stability of Epigenetic Population Differentiation in a Clonal Invader.  

  Shi W, Chen X, Gao L, Xu CY, Ou X, Bossdorf O, Yang J, Geng Y. Front Plant Sci. 2019 Mar 1; 9: 1851. doi: 10.3389 / fpls.2018.01851. eCollection 2018.

• Effect of early experience on neuronal and behavioral responses to con- and heterospecific odors in closely related Mus taxa: epigenetic contribution in formation of precopulatory isolation.  

  Kotenkova E, Romachenko A, Ambaryan A, Maltsev A. BMC Evol Biol. 2019 Feb 26; 19 (Suppl 1): 51. doi: 10.1186 / s12862-019-1373-8.

• Epigenetic gene silencing alters the mechanisms and rate of evolutionary adaptation.  

  Stajic D, Perfeito L, Jansen LET Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 Feb 4.doi: 10.1038 / s41559-018-0781-2.  

• Differential effects of developmental thermal plasticity across three generations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata): channelization and anticipatory matching.

  Le Roy A, Loughland I, Seebacher F. Sci Rep. 2017 Jun 28; 7 (1): 4313.

• A guide to using a multiple-matrix animal model to direangle genetic and nongenetic causes of phenotypic variance.  

  Thomson CE, Winney IS, Salles OC, Pujol B. PLoS One. 2018 Oct 12; 13 (10): e0197720.

• Incubation temperature and parental identity determine sex in the Australian agamid lizard Ctenophorus pictus .

  Hansson A, Olsson M. Ecol Evol. 2018 Sep 3; 8 (19): 9827-9833. doi: 10.1002 / ece3.4466. eCollection 2018 Oct.

• Caenorhabditis elegans sperm carry a histone-based epigenetic memory of both spermatogenesis and oogenesis ..
  Tabuchi, TM, Rechtsteiner, A., Jeffers, TE, Egelhofer, TA, Murphy, CT and Strome, S. Nature Communications 9 (2018) 4310.

• T he epigenetic landscape of transgenerational acclimation to ocean warming .
  Taewoo Ryu, Heather D. Veilleux, Jennifer M. Donelson, Philip L. Munday & Timothy Ravasi. Nature Climate Change volume 8, pages504–509 (2018)

• Facilitation of environmental adaptation and evolution by epigenetic phenotype variation: insights from clonal, invasive, polyploid, and domesticated animals .
  Vogt G, 2017, Environmental Epigenetics 3 (1): dvx002.

• Transgenerational transmission of environmental information in C. elegans .
  Klosin, A, E Casas, C Hidalgo-Carcedo, T Vavouri, & B Lehner, Science vol. 356, no. 6335, 2017, pp. 320-323.

• Maternal high-fat diet associated with altered gene expression, DNA methylation, and obesity risk in mouse offspring.
  Keleher MR, Zaidi R, Shah S, Oakley ME, Pavlatos C, El Idrissi S, Xing X, Li D, Wang T, Cheverud JM. PLoS One. 2018 Feb 15; 13 (2): e0192606. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0192606. eCollection 2018.

• Clonal genome evolution and rapid invasive spread of the marbled crayfish .

  Gutekunst, J, R Andriantsoa, C Falckenhayn, K Hanna, W Stein, J Rasamy, & F Lyko, Nature Ecology & Evolution 2018,

• Evolutionary patterns of genic DNA methylation vary across land plants.

  Takuno S, Ran JH, Gaut BS. Nat Plants. 2016 Jan 25; 2: 15222.

• An epigenetic change in a moth is generated by temperature and transmitted to many subsequent generations mediated by RNA .

  Pavelka, J., Polakova, S. and Pavelkova, V. 2017bioRxiv,

• Conceptual Confusion: the case of Epigenetics .

  Pisco, AO, Fouquier d'Herouel, A. and Huang, S. bioRxiv, 2016

• Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes.

  van den Berg GJ, Pinger PR.Econ Hum Biol. 2016 Dec; 23: 103-120

• Editorial: Epigenetic Modifications Associated with Abiotic and Biotic Stresses in Plants: An Implication for Understanding Plant Evolution.

  Yaish MW. Front Plant Sci. 2017 Nov 21; 8: 1983

• Rapid response to changing environments during biological invasions: DNA methylation perspectives.

  Huang, X., Li, S., Ni, P., Gao, Y., Jiang, B., Zhou, Z. and Zhan, A. Mol Ecol, 2017.

• Adaptation to Global Change: A Transposable Element-Epigenetics Perspective.

  Rey O, Danchin E, Mirouze M , Loot C, Blanchet S. Trends Ecol Evol. 2016 Jul; 31 (7): 514-526. doi: 10.1016 / j.tree.2016.03.013

• Worldwide patterns of human epigenetic variation.

  Carja O, MacIsaac JL, Mah SM, Henn BM, Kobor MS, Feldman MW, Fraser HB. Nat Ecol Evol. 2017 Oct; 1 (10): 1577-1583.

• Epigenetic variation between urban and rural populations of Darwin's finches.

  McNew SM, Beck D, Sadler-Riggleman I, Knutie SA, Koop JAH, Clayton DH, Skinner MK.BMC Evol Biol. 2017 Aug 24; 17 (1): 183. doi: 10.1186 / s12862-017-1025-9.

• Testing Two Evolutionary Theories of Human Aging with DNA Methylation Data .  

  Robins C, McRae AF, Powell JE, Wiener HW, Aslibekyan S, Kennedy EM, Absher DM, Arnett DK, Montgomery GW, Visscher PM, Cutler DJ, Conneely KN. Genetics. 2017 Aug 30.

• Protein abundances can distinguish between naturally-occurring and laboratory strains of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague.

  Merkley ED, Sego LH, Lin A, Leiser OP, Kaiser BLD, Adkins JN, Keim PS, Wagner DM, Kreuzer HW. PLoS One. 2017 Aug 30; 12 (8): e0183478

• T ertiary Epimutations - A Novel Aspect of Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance Promoting Genome Instability.

  McCarrey JR, Lehle JD, Raju SS, Wang Y, Nilsson EE, Skinner MK. PLoS One. 2016 Dec 19; 11 (12): e0168038.

• Plasticity in the Meiotic Epigenetic Landscape of Sex Chromosomes in Caenorhabditis Species.
  Larson BJ, Van MV, Nakayama T, Engebrecht J. Genetics. 2016 Aug; 203 (4): 1641-58.

• MeDIP-seq and nCpG analyzes illuminate sexually dimorphic methylation of gonadal development genes with high historic methylation in turtle hatchlings with temperature-dependent sex determination.
  Radhakrishnan S, Literman R, Mizoguchi B, Valenzuela N. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2017 May 19; 10: 28

• Epigenetic and Genetic Contributions to Adaptation in Chlamydomonas .
  Kronholm I, Bassett A, Baulcombe D, Collins S. Mol Biol Evol. 2017 May 23.

• Effects of a parental exposure to diuron on Pacific oyster spat methylome.
  Rodolfo Rondon, Christoph Grunau , Manon Fallet , Nicolas Charlemagne, Rossana Sussarellu, Cristian Chaparro, Caroline Montagnani, Guillaume Mitta, Evelyne Bachère, Farida Akcha Environ Epigenet (2017) 3 (1)

• Lamarck rises from his grave: parental environment-induced epigenetic inheritance in model organisms and humans.
  Wang Y, Liu H, Sun Z. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2017 Feb 20. doi: 10.1111 / brv.12322.

• Epigenetic regulation of Plasmodium falciparum clonally variant gene expression during development in Anopheles gambiae.
  Gómez-Díaz E, Yerbanga RS, Lefèvre T, Cohuet A, Rowley MJ, Ouedraogo JB, Corces VG. Sci Rep. 2017 Jan 16; 7: 40655.

• Can Evolution Supply What Ecology Demands?
  Kokko H, Chaturvedi A, Croll D, Fischer MC, Guillaume F, Karrenberg S, Kerr B, Rolshausen G, Stapley J. Trends Ecol Evol. 2017 Jan 10. pii: S0169-5347 (16) 30238-5.

• An epigenetic resolution of the lek paradox.
  Bonilla MM, Zeh JA, Zeh DW. Bioessays. 2016 Apr; 38 (4): 355-66. doi: 10.1002 / bies.201500176.

• Transgenerational epimutations induced by multi-generation drought imposition mediate rice plant's adaptation to drought condition.
  Zheng X, Chen L, Xia H, Wei H, Lou Q, Li M, Li T, Luo L. Sci Rep. 2017 Jan 4; 7: 39843. doi: 10.1038 / srep39843.

• (Epi) genetic Inheritance in Schistosoma mansoni: A Systems Approach.
  Cosseau C, Wolkenhauer O, Padalino G, Geyer KK, Hoffmann KF, Grunau C. Trends Parasitol. 2016 Dec 28. pii: S1471-4922 (16) 30224-0. doi: 10.1016 / j.pt.2016.12.002.

• Disentangling genetic and epigenetic determinants of ultrafast adaptation.
  Gjuvsland AB, Zörgö E, Samy JK, Stenberg S, Demirsoy IH, Roque F, Maciaszczyk-Dziubinska E, Migocka M, Alonso-Perez E, Zackrisson M, Wysocki R, Tamás MJ, Jonassen I, Omholt SW, Warringer J. Mol Syst Biol. 2016 Dec 15; 12 (12): 892. doi: 10.15252 / msb.20166951.

• Scientists Seek to Update Evolution

  C. Zimmer, online 22-Nov-2016

• Epigenetic origin of adaptive phenotypic variants in the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni .

  Fneich S , Théron A, Cosseau C, Rognon A, Aliaga B, Buard J, Duval D, Arancibia N, Boissier J, Roquis D, Mitta G, Grunau C. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2016 Jul 4; 9: 27. eCollection 2016.

• A possible role of DNA methylation in functional divergence of a fast evolving duplicate gene encoding odorant binding protein 11 in the honeybee.

  Kucharski R, Maleszka J, Maleszka R. Proc Biol Sci. 2016 Jun 29; 283 (1833). pii: 20160558. doi: 10.1098 / rspb.2016.0558.

• Escape from epigenetic silencing of lactase expression is triggered by a single-nucleotide change.

  Swallow DM, Troelsen JT. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2016 Jun 7; 23 (6): 505-7. doi: 10.1038 / nsmb.3238.

• Genetic and epigenetic variation of human populations: An adaptive tale.

  Quintana-Murci L. CR Biol. 2016 May 13. pii: S1631-0691 (16) 30028-2. doi: 10.1016 / j.crvi.2016.04.005.

• Genes as cues: phenotypic integration of genetic and epigenetic information from a Darwinian perspective.

  Dall SR, McNamara JM, Leimar O. Trends Ecol Evol. 2015 Jun; 30 (6): 327-33. doi: 10.1016 / j.tree.2015.04.002. Epub 2015 May 2. Review.

• AFLP and MS-AFLP analysis of the variation within saffron crocus (Crocus sativus L.) germplasm.

  Busconi M, Colli L, Sánchez RA, Santaella M, De-Los-Mozos Pascual M, Santana O, Roldán M, Fernández JA. PLoS One. 2015 Apr 17; 10 (4): e0123434. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0123434. eCollection 2015.

• Sexually antagonistic epigenetic marks that canalize sexually dimorphic development.

  Rice WR, Friberg U, Gavrilets S. Mol Ecol. 2015 Nov 24.

• Sex-specific fitness effects of unpredictable early life conditions are associated with DNA methylation in the avian glucocorticoid receptor.

  Rubenstein DR, Skolnik H, Berrio A, Champagne FA, Phelps S, Solomon J. Mol Ecol. 2015 Nov 20.

• Even more functions of sperm RNA: a response to Hosken and Hodgson.

  Holman L, Price TA. Trends Ecol Evol. 2014 Dec; 29 (12): 648-9.

• High-density linkage maps fail to detect any genetic component to sex determination in a Rana temporaria family.

  Brelsford A, Rodrigues N, Perrin N. J Evol Biol. 2015 Sep 7. doi: 10.1111 / jeb.12747

• Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: adaptation through the germline epigenome?

  Prokopuk L, Western PS, Stringer JM. Epigenomics. 2015 Sep 14

• Environmental Epigenetics and a Unified Theory of the Molecular Aspects of Evolution: A Neo-Lamarckian Concept that Facilitates Neo-Darwinian Evolution.

  Skinner MK. Genome Biol Evol. 2015 Apr 26

• The Inheritance of Acquired Epigenetic Variations.

  Jablonka E, Lamb MJ. Int J Epidemiol. 2015 Apr 7. pii: dyv020.

• Sequence-level mechanisms of human epigenome evolution.

  Prendergast JG, Chambers EV, Semple CA. Genome Biol Evol. 2014 Jun 24; 6 (7): 1758-71.

• Epigenetics as an answer to Darwin's "special difficulty," Part 2: natural selection of metastable epialleles in honeybee castes.

  Ruden DM, Cingolani PE, Sen A, Qu W, Wang L, Senut MC, Garfinkel MD, Sollars VE, Lu X. Front Genet. 2015 Feb 24; 6:60. doi: 10.3389 / fgene.2015.00060. eCollection 2015. Review.

• Determination of epigenetic and genetic inheritance, and estimation of genome DNA methylation in a full-sib family of Cupressus sempervirens L. 
  Avramidou EV, Doulis AG, Aravanopoulos FA. Uncomfortable. 2015 Feb 26. pii: S0378-1119 (15) 00243-7.