title: Silencing by throwing away: a role for chromatin diminution.
abstract: Chromatin diminution during development generates cells with varying genetic content within the same organism. Two recent papers demonstrate that in two different systems chromatin diminution removes a considerable number of genes from somatic cells, thereby restricting their expression to the germline.
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany. adrian.streit@tuebingen.mpg.de
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Streit