What role does heritable epigenetic variation play in phenotypic evolution?

BioScience

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 232-237

  Richards, Christina L ^a   Bossdorf, Oliver ^b   Pigliucci, Massimo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Inheritance; Maternal effects; National Evolutionary Synthesis Center; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949533748     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.3.9     Document Type: Article

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