Epigenetic variation in animal populations: Sources, extent, phenotypic implications, and ecological and evolutionary relevance.

Abstract excerpt

Laboratory experiments and fieldwork with asexually reproducing invertebrates and vertebrates clearly revealed that animal populations can produce substantial phenotypic variation despite genetic identity. This epigenetically caused phenotypic variation comes from two different sources, namely di...

Topics

• Adaptation, Biological
• Animals
• Astacoidea
• Biological Evolution
• Domestication
• Ecology
• Ecosystem
• Epigenesis, Genetic
• Insecta
• Introduced Species
• Mutation