Retraction Note to: Cell. Mol. Life Sci. (2015) 72:4545–4560 DOI 10.1007/s00018-015-2020-1

The authors retracted this review article in agreement with the Editor-in-Chief. A part of the review, which was added during revision, had been duplicated from the following articles and was not adequately referred to in their manuscript:

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    MicroRNAs and DNA methylation as epigenetic regulators of mitosis, meiosis and spermiogenesis. Chencheng Yao, Yun Liu, Min Sun, Minghui Niu, Qingqing Yuan, Yanan Hai, Ying Guo, Zheng Chen, Jingmei Hou, Yang Liu and Zuping He. Reproduction 2015, 150:R25–R34.

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    Germ line development: lessons learned from pluripotent stem cells. Ana M. Martinez-Arroy, Jose V. Medrano, Jose Remohi and Carlos Simon. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 2014, 28:64–70.