[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic inheritance and its role in evolutionary biology: re-evaluation and new perspectives

W Burggren - Biology, 2016 - mdpi.com
Epigenetics increasingly occupies a pivotal position in our understanding of inheritance,
natural selection and, perhaps, even evolution. A survey of the PubMed database, however …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary consequences of epigenetic inheritance

MI Lind, F Spagopoulou - Heredity, 2018 - nature.com
In recent years, the belief that the genetic code is the sole basis for biological inheritance
has been challenged by the discovery of trans-generational epigenetic inheritance …

Epigenetics in comparative biology: why we should pay attention

WW Burggren, D Crews - Integrative and comparative biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The past decade has seen an explosion of articles in scientific journals involving non-
genetic influences on phenotype through modulation of gene function without changes in …

[PDF][PDF] Epigenetic inheritance

CL Richards, M Pigliucci - A decade into the extended …, 2020 - ecologicalepigenetics.com
A decade ago, a landmark edited collection of essays made official the ongoing quest for an
Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES), beyond the classic Modern Synthesis that took …

What role does heritable epigenetic variation play in phenotypic evolution?

CL Richards, O Bossdorf, M Pigliucci - BioScience, 2010 - academic.oup.com
To explore the potential evolutionary relevance of heritable epigenetic variation, the
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center recently hosted a catalysis meeting that brought …

What do you mean,“epigenetic”?

C Deans, KA Maggert - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Interest in the field of epigenetics has increased rapidly over the last decade, with the term
becoming more identifiable in biomedical research, scientific fields outside of the molecular …

Epigenetics in ecology and evolution

A Herrel, D Joly, E Danchin - Functional Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of the multidimensional nature of the inherited information carried by the
epigenome and the characterization of its intra‐and intergenerational dynamics have …

Inherited epigenetic variation—revisiting soft inheritance

EJ Richards - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2006 - nature.com
Phenotypic variation is traditionally parsed into components that are directed by genetic and
environmental variation. The line between these two components is blurred by inherited …

Advances in epigenetics link genetics to the environment and disease

G Cavalli, E Heard - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic research has accelerated rapidly in the twenty-first century, generating justified
excitement and hope, but also a degree of hype. Here we review how the field has evolved …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenomic plasticity within populations: its evolutionary significance and potential

LJ Johnson, PJ Tricker - Heredity, 2010 - nature.com
Epigenetics has progressed rapidly from an obscure quirk of heredity into a data-heavy
'omic'science. Our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of epigenomic regulation …