A critical question is: are the detected imprinting effects really due to imprinting?
Lately it has been shown that antisense RNA transcripts are associated not only to imprinting and X inactivaction, but can occur at non-imprinted autosomal loci.
But learning usually involves some generalization to other instances, and there does not seem to be anything peculiar to imprinting here.
In mallard ducklings and domestic chicks, imprinting can be accomplished in a few hours, but receptivity to imprinting stimuli vanishes at the age of about 30 hours.
Transforming procurement and therefore government won't happen overnight, but a change in mentality is the key to imprinting entrepreneurship and startup culture on bureaucrats.
The strategy of applying biocompatible and polymerizable ILs to imprinting technology may provide a new approach for effective biomacromolecular imprinting.
Moreover, the educational focus on conventional forestry has led to "imprinting" or "knowledge lock-in" in many practicing foresters who may consider only the predominant management model as acceptable.
Nike lets you design your own shoes, from choosing the color of the laces to imprinting your initials on the tongue.
From carving the details on his shoes to imprinting his hat with burlap to give it texture, McKenzie's focus and nuance are addicting to watch.
In The Apprentice, "the most sophisticated techniques of Hollywood art were applied to imprinting an image on the minds of millions more citizens than ever paid attention to any politician, with the possible exception of the president".
A link between intelligence and a genetic variant within a gene which is critical to imprinting is therefore a useful piece of additional evidence.
