Furthermore, in addition to the maintenance and transmission of methylated DNA states, the same principle could work in the maintenance and transmission of histone modifications and even cytoplasmic (structural) heritable states.
此外，除了维持和传送甲基化DNA状态，相同的原理也能作用于保持和传送组蛋白修饰，甚至细胞质（结构上）的遗传状态。