Passing the message on: inheritance of epigenetic traits

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 211-216

  Bond, Donna M ^a,b   Finnegan, E Jean ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MAIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; RNA; ZEA MAYS;

MUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34248179417     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2007.03.010     Document Type: Review

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