Asexuality and epigenetic variation

Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 87-102

  Gorelick, Root ^a   Laubichler, Manfred ^b   Massicotte, Rachel ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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