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We discovered that gene clusters of 45S ribosomal RNA in Xenopus hybrid frogs are maternally imprinted, similar to X chromosome inactivation in marsupial females. Paternal expression was partly restored after chemical inhibition of histone deacetylation during larval stages. This provides a new spectacular example of epigenetic silencing and first evidence of genomic imprinting in amphibians.
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