Rediscovering Waddington in the post-genomic age: Operationalising Waddington's epigenetics reveals new ways to investigate the generation and modulation of phenotypic variation

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 553-558

  Jamniczky, Heather A ^a   Boughner, Julia C ^a   Rolian, Campbell ^a   Gonzalez, Paula N ^a,b   Powell, Christopher D ^a   Schmidt, Eric J ^a   Parsons, Trish E ^a   Bookstein, Fred L ^c,d   Hallgrímsson, Benedikt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conrad Waddington; Emergent properties; Epigenetics; Evo devo; Genotype; Phenotype; Variation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOINFORMATICS; EPIGENETICS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 77954845729     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900189     Document Type: Review

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