Emerging topics in epigenetics: Ants, brains, and noncoding RNAs

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1260, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-23

  Bonasio, Roberto ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Behavior; Chromatin; Epigenetics; Noncoding RNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84864073750     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06363.x     Document Type: Article

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