Environmentally alterable additive genetic effects

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 371-379

  Gorelick, Root ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytosine methylation; Epigenetic; Hard inheritance; Heritability; Phenotypic plasticity; Reaction norm; Soft inheritance

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DARWINIA;

EID: 17444416761     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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