Abstract
Maternal inheritance is a group of conceptually related phenomena associated with uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes, cytoplasmic elements, symbionts, substances, and factors, as well as parent-of-origin gene expression effects, and maternally controlled genomic imprinting. Some of these inherited elements direct early ontogeny of an embryo, while others require sufficient offspring development to have an effect. To the extent that such inheritance causally influences development of offspring, they become maternal effects. Despite general conceptual similarity, the types of maternal inheritance have widely distinct mechanisms and evolutionary and genetic consequences.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics |
| Subtitle of host publication | Second Edition |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 320-322 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780080961569 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780123749840 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 27 2013 |
Keywords
- Development
- Epigenetic
- Evolution
- Genomic imprinting
- Maternal effects
- Mitochondria
- Parent-of-origin effect
- Parent-offspring conflict
- Sexual conflict
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Medicine