The integration of genomic and environmental influences into methylation patterns to bring
about a phenotype is of central interest in developmental epigenetics, but many details are …

While the goal of most conservation hatchery programs is to produce fish that are genetically
and phenotypically indistinguishable from the wild stocks they aim to restore, there is …

Background Zebrafish can faithfully regenerate injured fins through the formation of a
blastema, a mass of proliferative cells that can grow and develop into the lost body part. After …

Methylation of cytosines in the CG context (mCG) is the most abundant DNA modification in
vertebrates that plays crucial roles in cellular differentiation and identity. After fertilization …

Histone-modifying enzymes are required for cell identity and lineage commitment, however
little is known about the regulatory origins of the epigenome during embryonic development …

Predicting how species will respond to future climate change is of central importance in the
midst of the global biodiversity crisis, and recent work has demonstrated the utility of …

Environmental epigenetics is a rapidly growing field which studies the effects of
environmental factors such as nutrition, stress, and exposure to compounds on epigenetic …

Biological data are generated at unprecedentedly exponential rates, posing considerable
challenges in big data deposition, integration and translation. The BIG Data Center …

Research confirms that maternal ethanol (EtOH) exposure can induce physical and mental
disorders in offspring, yet the effect of paternal ethanol exposure on offspring is unclear …

The two major subtypes of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ulcerative colitis (UC, MIM#
191390) and Crohn's disease (CD, MIM# 266600), are chronic relapsing-remitting …