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Chris Murgatroyd and Dietmar Spengler^*

Department of Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstrasse 2-10, D-80804 Munich, Germany

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Genome Biology 2010, 11:105 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-2-105

Published: 26 February 2010

Recent studies of the nematode dauer state provide new insights into epigenetic processes that underlie cellular memory.