The Epigenetics Dilemma

doi:10.3390/genes11010023

Editorial

. 2019 Dec 23;11(1):23.

doi: 10.3390/genes11010023.

The Epigenetics Dilemma

Christoph Grunau¹, Jérémy Le Luyer², Martin Laporte³, Dominique Joly⁴

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¹ Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, IHPE UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ. Montpellier, F-66860 Perpignan, France.
² IFREMER/Centre du Pacifique,Département Ressources Biologiques Environnement, Unité Ressources Marines en Polynésie Française, UMR 241 Écosystèmes Insulaires Océaniens, BP 49, 98719 Taravao, Tahiti, French Polynesia.
³ Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Pavillon Charles-Eugène-Marchand, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.
⁴ Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes Comportement, Ecologie, UMR 9191, CNRS, IRD, Université Paris Saclay, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France.

PMID: 31878110
PMCID: PMC7016732
DOI: 10.3390/genes11010023

Editorial

The Epigenetics Dilemma

Christoph Grunau et al. Genes (Basel). 2019.

. 2019 Dec 23;11(1):23.

doi: 10.3390/genes11010023.

Authors

Christoph Grunau¹, Jérémy Le Luyer², Martin Laporte³, Dominique Joly⁴

Affiliations

¹ Univ. Perpignan Via Domitia, IHPE UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ. Montpellier, F-66860 Perpignan, France.
² IFREMER/Centre du Pacifique,Département Ressources Biologiques Environnement, Unité Ressources Marines en Polynésie Française, UMR 241 Écosystèmes Insulaires Océaniens, BP 49, 98719 Taravao, Tahiti, French Polynesia.
³ Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Pavillon Charles-Eugène-Marchand, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.
⁴ Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes Comportement, Ecologie, UMR 9191, CNRS, IRD, Université Paris Saclay, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France.

PMID: 31878110
PMCID: PMC7016732
DOI: 10.3390/genes11010023

Abstract

This special issue of Genes demonstrates clearly that research in epigenetics has proceeded at a very rapid pace in the last decade. [...].

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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[1] Liu S., Aagaard A., Bechsgaard J., Bilde T. DNA Methylation Patterns in the Social Spider, Stegodyphus dumicola. Genes. 2019;10:137. doi: 10.3390/genes10020137. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[2] Liu S., Aagaard A., Bechsgaard J., Bilde T. DNA Methylation Patterns in the Social Spider, Stegodyphus dumicola. Genes. 2019;10:137. doi: 10.3390/genes10020137. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[3] Fellous A., Le Franc L., Jouaux A., Goux D., Favrel P., Riviere G. Histone Methylation Participates in Gene Expression Control during the Early Development of the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas. Genes. 2019;10:695. doi: 10.3390/genes10090695. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[4] Fellous A., Le Franc L., Jouaux A., Goux D., Favrel P., Riviere G. Histone Methylation Participates in Gene Expression Control during the Early Development of the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas. Genes. 2019;10:695. doi: 10.3390/genes10090695. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[5] Somerville V., Schwaiger M., Hirsch E.P., Walser J.-C., Bussmann K., Weyrich A., Burkhardt-Holm P., Adrian-Kalchhauser I. DNA Methylation Patterns in the Round Goby Hypothalamus Support an On-The-Spot Decision Scenario for Territorial Behavior. Genes. 2019;10:219. doi: 10.3390/genes10030219. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[6] Somerville V., Schwaiger M., Hirsch E.P., Walser J.-C., Bussmann K., Weyrich A., Burkhardt-Holm P., Adrian-Kalchhauser I. DNA Methylation Patterns in the Round Goby Hypothalamus Support an On-The-Spot Decision Scenario for Territorial Behavior. Genes. 2019;10:219. doi: 10.3390/genes10030219. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[7] Gavery R.M., Nichols M.K., Berejikian A.B., Tatara P.C., Goetz W.G., Dickey T.J., Van Doornik M.D., Swanson P. Temporal Dynamics of DNA Methylation Patterns in Response to Rearing Juvenile Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in a Hatchery versus Simulated Stream Environment. Genes. 2019;10:356. doi: 10.3390/genes10050356. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[8] Gavery R.M., Nichols M.K., Berejikian A.B., Tatara P.C., Goetz W.G., Dickey T.J., Van Doornik M.D., Swanson P. Temporal Dynamics of DNA Methylation Patterns in Response to Rearing Juvenile Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in a Hatchery versus Simulated Stream Environment. Genes. 2019;10:356. doi: 10.3390/genes10050356. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[9] Weyrich A., Lenz D., Fickel J. Environmental Change-Dependent Inherited Epigenetic Response. Genes. 2018;10:4. doi: 10.3390/genes10010004. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[10] Weyrich A., Lenz D., Fickel J. Environmental Change-Dependent Inherited Epigenetic Response. Genes. 2018;10:4. doi: 10.3390/genes10010004. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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