The role of non-genetic inheritance in evolutionary rescue: Epigenetic buffering, heritable bet hedging and epigenetic traps

Environmental Epigenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  O'Dea, Rose E ^a   Noble, Daniel W A ^a   Johnson, Sheri L ^b   Hesselson, Daniel ^c,d   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d ST VINCENT'S CLINIC   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; epimutation; evolutionary tracking; evolutionary traps; plasticity; transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988395464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eep/dvv014     Document Type: Article

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