Maternal effects on life-span.

[Sydney Shall]

Further to the comment by Jim Cummins regarding maternal effects on
life-span, I would draw attention to the well known phenomenon of
maternal imprinting, which might be effected, in part, by methylation
of DNA in the nucleus.

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