Mechanisms for the environmental regulation of gene expression

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 291-299

  Gilbert, Scott F ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE;

DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; INSECT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HORMONES; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 13444302913     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20026     Document Type: Review

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