Timing is everything: The when and how of environmentally induced changes in the epigenome of animals

Epigenetics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 791-797

  Faulk, Christopher ^a   Dolinoy, Dana C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; DNA methylation; Environment; Environmental epigenomics; Epigenetics; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ARGIPRESSIN; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; FOLIC ACID; LEPTIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PHYTOESTROGEN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TOXIN; VINCLOZOLIN;

BEHAVIOR; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETAL MALNUTRITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GERM CELL; LACTATION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION; STRESS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 79960148707     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.6.7.16209     Document Type: Review

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