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Recent Advances on Fungal Epigentics
Li-You Qiu*, Cui Yu, Yuan-Cheng Qi, Yu-Qian Gao, Jin-Wen Shen
College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
Abstract: Since the repeat-induced point mutation (RIP)， a gene silencing mechanisms in Neurospora crassa， was discovered in 1986， methylation induced premeiotically (MIP)， quelling， and meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA (MSUD) had been found in fungi one after another. Furthermore， DNA methylation， RNA interference， and chromatin remodeling， similar gene silencing mechanisms to higher plants and animals， were sought in a number of fungi. Studying fungal epigentics in depth can enrich and promote our knowledge on eukaryotic epigentics， and also accelerate research on phylogenetic evolution and analyze transgenetic silence of fungi.
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