Epigenetic variations in heredity and evolution

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 683-688

  Jablonka, E ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HUMANS; POPULATION;

EID: 84869492915     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2012.158     Document Type: Article

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