Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: Adaptation through the germline epigenome?

Epigenomics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 829-846

  Prokopuk, Lexie ^a,b   Western, Patrick S ^a,b   Stringer, Jessica M ^a,b  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

epigenetic inheritance; epigenetics; evolution; germline; transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; EPIGENOME; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENOME; GERM CELL; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PATERNAL INHERITANCE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; PROCEDURES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84945184546     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.15.36     Document Type: Review

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