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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Rep. 2024 Apr 4;43(4):114029. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114029

Figure 7. Microbial and immune alterations lead to heritable and persistent phenotypic diversity in progeny.

Figure 7.

Model for microbial- and immune-mediated transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. Environmental perturbations lead to alterations in the microbiota and barrier immune cell population. These shifts affect the epigenetic information in gametes, which then lead to downstream differential embryonic gene expression and somatic phenotypes in adult mice.