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Epigenetic inheritance and plasticity: The responsive germline.
Progress in biophysics and molecular biology - 1 Apr 2013
Jablonka Eva
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Developmental plasticity, the capacity of a single genotype to give rise to different phenotypes, affects evolutionary dynamics by influencing the rate and direction of phenotypic change. It is based on regulatory changes in gene expression and gene products, which are partially controlled by epigenetic mechanisms. Plasticity involves not just epigenetic changes in somatic cells and tissues; it can also involve...
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