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From: ireland@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Reconstructing cells from DNA
Message-ID: <1991May6.041657.325@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 6 May 91 07:16:57 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Some time ago in this discussion of non-genetic evolution someone mentioned
cortical inheritance in ciliates. If I recall correctly, it was stated that
the cortical changes are not inherited over many generations, which was not
how I remembered these experiments.  I was looking through some old papers
recently and came across a nice paper which discusses this work and I
thought some of you might like to have a look at it.  The reference is:

Nanney, D. L., "Heredity without genes: ciliate explorations of clonal
heredity". Trends in Genetics (November 1985) pp.295-298.

Keith Conover
ireland@ac.dal.ca