Publication: Imprinted green beards: a little less than kin and more than kind
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2013
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The Royal Society
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Haig, D. 2013. “Imprinted Green Beards: a Little Less Than Kin and More Than Kind.” Biology Letters 9 (6) (October 9): 20130199–20130199. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0199.
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RNA is complementary to the DNA sequence from which it is transcribed. Therefore, interactions between DNA and RNA provide a simple mechanism of genetic self-detection within nuclei. Imprinted RNAs could enable alleles of maternal and paternal origin to detect whether they are the same (homozygous) or different (heterozygous), and thereby provide strategic information about expected relatedness to siblings.
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inclusive fitness, imprinting, siRNA, green beards, relatedness
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