Projektnummer

N001088

Zusammenfassung

Information is key to life. Most of it is hardcoded in the genome and t?hus transferred to the next generation. However, the genome does not encode all relevant information. Over the past decade, additional information transfer mechanisms have emerged, known as epigenetic inheritance. Epigenetic inheritance provides an alternative route for passing information and maintaining organismal memory from parent to progeny, but this type of information is not transferred indefinitely and unconditionally across generations. Its roles and functions are therefore conceptually different from DNA ...