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Maternal Inheritance

Known as: Effects, Maternal, Maternal Effect, Inherited, Maternally 
Transmission of genetic characters, qualities, and traits, solely from maternal extra-nuclear elements such as MITOCHONDRIAL DNA or MATERNAL… Expand
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Review
2017
Review
2017
Mitochondrial DNA in innate immune responses and inflammatory pathology
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) — which is well known for its role in oxidative phosphorylation and maternally inherited mitochondrial… Expand
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
A Wolbachia Symbiont in Aedes aegypti Limits Infection with Dengue, Chikungunya, and Plasmodium
Wolbachia are maternally inherited intracellular bacterial symbionts that are estimated to infect more than 60% of all insect… Expand
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
An epigenetic role for maternally inherited piRNAs in transposon silencing.
In plants and mammals, small RNAs indirectly mediate epigenetic inheritance by specifying cytosine methylation. We found that… Expand
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Maternal microRNAs are essential for mouse zygotic development.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have important roles in diverse cellular processes, but little is known about their identity and functions… Expand
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
When is a maternal effect adaptive
Maternal effects have become an important field of study in evolutionary ecology and there is an ongoing debate regarding their… Expand
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior
Here we report that increased pup licking and grooming (LG) and arched-back nursing (ABN) by rat mothers altered the offspring… Expand
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The adaptive significance of maternal effects.
Recently, the adaptive significance of maternal effects has been increasingly recognized. No longer are maternal effects… Expand
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
THE EVOLUTION OF MATERNAL CHARACTERS.
We develop quantitative-genetic models for the evolution of multiple traits under maternal inheritance, in which traits are… Expand
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Human gene expression first occurs between the four- and eight-cell stages of preimplantation development
The earliest stages of development in most animals, including the few mammalian species that have been investigated, are… Expand
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Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Maternal inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA.
Human mitochondrial DNA was obtained from peripheral blood platelets donated by the members of several independent families. The… Expand
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