Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants and Animals
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 8 February 2025 | Viewed by 51
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computational biology; small RNA; epigenetics; evolution; neurobiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
While the prevailing Modern Evolutionary Synthesis explained how biological traits are shaped by genetic variation, mounting evidence shows that inheritance that is independent of changes in DNA sequences can certainly occur—particularly in plants and some invertebrates. Environmental triggers may elicit a heritable epigenetic response, involving DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non-coding small RNAs, that persists for multiple organismal generations; however, it is currently unclear to what extent is transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (TEI) adaptive. What role do interactions between the epigenome and the genome play in establishing traits of variants in a species? Are many traits and genes affected by these interactions in plants and animals? To what degree do stably heritable epigenetic mechanisms function in evolutionary adaptation? These questions will be the major topics of discussion in this issue. Articles of any format (original research, methods, opinion, review) that shed new light on the mechanisms and functions of TEI are welcome.
Dr. Hila Gingold
Dr. Chee Kiang Ewe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
- epigenetics
- small RNA
- adaptive evolution
- histone modification
- DNA methylation
- transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
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