Expanding the Temporal Dimensions of Developmental Biology: The Role of Environmental Agents in Establishing Adult-Onset Phenotypes

Biological Theory

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-72

  Gilbert, Scott F ^a,b  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Behavior; Development; Developmental origins of adult disease; Environmental causation; Epigenetic; Nature nurture; Nutrition; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940767007     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13752-011-0008-0     Document Type: Article

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