Eva Jablonka and Gal Raz
Quarterly Review of Biology Vol. 84 No. 2 June 2009
Ok so this doesn't have anything to do directly with fish, but it is an excellent review article that outlines the key elements of a transgenerational mechanism that might have interesting implications for sexual selection.
Abstract: This review describes new developments in the study of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, a component of epigenetics. We start by examining the basic concepts of the field and the mechanisms that underlie epigenetic inheritance. We present a comprehensive review of transgenerational cellular epigenetic inheritance among different taxa in the form of a table, and discuss the data contained therein. The analysis of these data shows that epigenetic inheritance is ubiquitous and suggests lines of research that go beyond present approaches to the subject. We conclude by exploring some of the consequences of epigenetic inheritance for the study of evolution, while also pointing to the importance of recognizing and understanding epigenetic inheritance for practical and theoretical issues in biology.
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