Environmentally-induced epigenetic conversion of a piRNA cluster
Karine Casier, Valérie Delmarre, Nathalie Gueguen, Catherine Hermant, Elise Viodé, Chantal Vaury, Stéphane Ronsseray, Émilie Brasset, Laure Teysset, Antoine Boivin
This paper shows that high temperature can induce a stable epigenetic conversion of a transgene cluster into an active piRNA-producing locus in flies, without maternal piRNA inheritance.
eLife · Mar 15, 2019Peer-reviewedGenetics