Epigenetic responses to environmental change and their evolutionary implications

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1534, 2009, Pages 3403-3418

  Turner, Bryan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Environment; Epigenetics; Evolution; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGAND; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN; SELECTION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 72949099235     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0125     Document Type: Review

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