imprinting

n.

胚教，铭记（动物生命早期即起作用的一种学习机能）；印记；

1. It seems likely that imprinting is an extreme case of conditioning.
   看来似乎铭记是适应的一种极端的情况。

Genomic imprinting: parental influence on the genome
Genomic imprinting in mammalian development: a parental tug-of-war.
Parental imprinting of the mouse insulin-like growth factor II gene.
Role for DNA methylation in genomic imprinting
Genomic imprinting disrupted by a maternal effect mutation in the Dnmt1 gene.
Childhood obesity and metabolic imprinting: the ongoing effects of maternal hyperglycemia.
Relaxation of insulin-like growth factor II gene imprinting implicated in Wilms' tumour
Convergent and divergent evolution of genomic imprinting in the marsupial Monodelphis domestica
Li E, Beard C, Jaenisch R. Role for DNA methylation in genomic imprinting. Nature 366: 362-365
Essential role for de novo DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a in paternal and maternal imprinting.