Too much success for recent groundbreaking epigenetic experiments

Genetics

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 449-451

  Francis, Gregory ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; EPIGENETICS; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; ANIMAL; FEAR; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MOUSE; ODOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEAR; MICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMELL;

EID: 84908029070     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.163998     Document Type: Article

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