Mechanisms, timescales and principles of trans-generational epigenetic inheritance in animals

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 41-49

  Klosin, Adam ^a,b   Lehner, Ben ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILUTION; EPIGENETICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE REPRESSION; GERM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOMATIC CELL; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHENOTYPE;

CHROMATIN; RNA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GERM CELLS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PHENOTYPE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

EID: 84968698090     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2016.04.001     Document Type: Review

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