How stable 'should' epigenetic modifications be? Insights from adaptive plasticity and bet hedging

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 632-643

  Herman, Jacob J ^a   Spencer, Hamish G ^b   Donohue, Kathleen ^c   Sultan, Sonia E ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Environmental cues; Maternal effects; Transgenerational plasticity

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; MATERNAL EFFECT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CUES; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MATERNAL EFFECTS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; TRANSGENERATIONAL PLASTICITY;

DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CUES; MATERNAL EFFECTS; TRANSGENERATIONAL PLASTICITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION;

EID: 84896736377     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12324     Document Type: Article

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