When is incomplete epigenetic resetting in germ cells favoured by natural selection?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1811, 2015, Pages

  Uller, Tobias ^a,b   English, Sinead ^a   Pen, Ido ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Epigenetic inheritance; Epigenetic reprogramming; Inheritance; Parental effects; Transgenerational plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DNA; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENERATION TIME; METHYLATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NOISE; PARENTAL CARE; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FLOWER; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GERM CELL; HEREDITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GERM CELLS; GERM CELLS, PLANT; HEREDITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84936889301     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0682     Document Type: Article

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