Post-fertilization transcription initiation in an ancestral LTR retrotransposon drives lineage-specific genomic imprinting of ZDBF2
Hisato Kobayashi, Tatsushi Igaki, Soichiro Kumamoto, Keisuke Tanaka, Tomoya Takashima, So I Nagaoka, Shunsuke Suzuki, Masaaki Hayashi, Marilyn B. Renfree, Manabu Kawahara, Shun Saito, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nagashima, Hitomi Matsunari, Kazuaki Nakano, , Kazuki Kurimoto
The paper shows that an ancestral LTR retrotransposon insertion in the common ancestor of Euarchontoglires drives lineage-specific genomic imprinting of ZDBF2 through post-fertilization transcription initiation.
eLife · Jun 2, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics