The midwife toad and Alma Mahler: Epigenetics or a matter of deception?

FASEB Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2591-2595

  Weissmann, Gerald ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

INDIAN INK;

CIONA INTESTINALIS; EDITORIAL; EPIGENETICS; ERROR; FITNESS; FORGERY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGINATION; MEDICAL GENETICS; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SALAMANDER; SCIENTIST; SUICIDE; SYNAPSE; TOAD;

ANIMALS; ANURA; DECEPTION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; RETRACTION OF PUBLICATION AS TOPIC;

ALMA; ALYTES OBSTETRICANS;

EID: 77955830654     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.10-0801ufm     Document Type: Editorial

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