A brief history of the term and concept epigenetics

Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 9-13

  Hall, Brian K ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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