You are what your parents ate: A Darwinian perspective on the inheritance of food effects

Trends in Food Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 204-207

  Wang, Zhengrong ^a   Wang, Qinglian ^a   Liu, Yongsheng ^a,b  

^a HENAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Darwin's Pangenesis; Inherited food effects; RNA mediated inheritance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989808407     PISSN: 09242244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2016.05.015     Document Type: Note

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