Plasticity and robustness in development and evolution

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 219-223

  Bateson, Patrick ^a   Gluckman, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CPG ISLAND; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS;

EID: 84858696296     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr240     Document Type: Note

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