Hunting for Darwin's gemmules and Lamarck's fluid: Transgenerational signaling and histone methylation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1839, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1440-1453

  Choi, Youngeun ^a   Mango, Susan E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular memory; Histone methylation; Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TOXIN; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

DARWIN GEMMULES; DAUGHTER; FOOD; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; LAMARCK FLUID; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PARENT; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SMELLING; SPERM; STRESS; THEORY; TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INHERITANCE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC FITNESS; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84913540819     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2014.05.011     Document Type: Review

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