Environmental influence on developmental plasticity impacts a wide diversity of animal life
from insects to humans. We now understand the epigenetic basis for many of these altered …

Epigenetic mechanisms are proposed as an important way in which the genome responds
to the environment. Epigenetic marks, including DNA methylation and Histone modifications …

Epigenetic phenomena in animals and plants are mediated by DNA methylation and stable
chromatin modifications. There has been considerable interest in whether environmental …

It is widely accepted that the epigenome can act as the link between environmental cues,
both external and internal, to the organism and phenotype by converting the environmental …

Genetic studies traditionally focus on DNA as the molecule that passes information on from
parents to their offspring. Changes in the DNA code alter heritable information and can more …

The epigenomes of higher organisms constantly change over time. Many of these epigenetic
changes are necessary to direct normal cellular development and differentiation in the …

Through epigenetic modifications, specific long-term phenotypic consequences can arise
from environmental influence on slowly evolving genomic DNA. Heritable epigenetic …

Parental effects are a major source of phenotypic plasticity. Moreover, there is evidence from
studies with a wide range of species that the relevant parental signals are influenced by the …

Organisms can change their physiological/behavioural traits to adapt and survive in
changed environments. However, whether these acquired traits can be inherited across …

Epigenetics represents a widely accepted set of mechanisms by which organisms respond
to the environment by regulating phenotypic plasticity and life history transitions …