title: Stress signaling etches heritable marks on chromatin.
abstract: Transgenerational inheritance of epigenetic states allows organisms to pass on adaptive responses to the environment to their offspring. Seong et al. (2011) now reveal how stress-induced signaling through dATF-2 disrupts heterochromatin and leaves heritable marks that influence patterns of gene expression in subsequent generations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan. awa403@z2.keio.jp
authors.forename: Haruhiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Siomi
authors.forename: Mikiko C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Siomi