How epigenetic mutations can affect genetic evolution: Model and mechanism

BioEssays

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 571-578

  Klironomos, Filippos D ^a,b   Berg, Johannes ^a,b   Collins, Sinéad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Sybacol   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive walks; Epigenetics; Methylation; Non genetic inheritance

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84877926085     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201200169     Document Type: Article

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