Transgenerational plasticity is sex-dependent and persistent in yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus)

Environmental Epigenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Akkerman, Kayla C ^a   Sattarin, Arash ^b   Kelly, John K ^b   Scoville, Alison G ^a  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

epigenetic inheritance; induced defense; Mimulus; transgenerational plasticity; trichome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989163734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eep/dvw003     Document Type: Article

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