Epigenetic variation in asexually reproducing organisms

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 644-655

  Verhoeven, Koen J F ^a   Preite, Veronica ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Apomixis; DNA methylation; Epigenetic resetting; Parthenogenesis; Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance; Vegetative propagation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; APOMIXIS; GENETIC VARIATION; METHYLATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MUTATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

ANIMAL; APOMIXIS; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETIC RESETTING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PLANT; TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

APOMIXIS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETIC RESETTING; PARTHENOGENESIS; TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 84896714730     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12320     Document Type: Article

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