Pivotal to projecting the fate of coral reefs is the capacity of reef-building corals to
acclimatize and adapt to climate change. Transgenerational plasticity may enable some …

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

At the current rate of climate change, it is unlikely that multicellular organisms will be able to
adapt to changing environmental conditions through genetic recombination and natural …

The increasing incidence of obesity is a serious global public health challenge. Although the
obesity epidemic is largely fueled by poor nutrition and lack of exercise, certain chemicals …

DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark that is erased in the early embryo and then re-
established at the time of implantation. In this Review, dynamics of DNA methylation during …

methylcytosine is a major epigenetic modification that is sometimes called" the fifth
nucleotide." However, our knowledge of how offspring inherit the DNA methylome from …

This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of
the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases …

The concept of 'lifestyle 'includes different factors such as nutrition, behavior, stress, physical
activity, working habits, smoking and alcohol consumption. Increasing evidence shows that …

Environmental sex determination (ESD) occurs in divergent, phylogenetically unrelated taxa,
and in some species, co-occurs with genetic sex determination (GSD) mechanisms …

Male obesity in reproductive-age men has nearly tripled in the past 30 y and coincides with
an increase in male infertility worldwide. There is now emerging evidence that male obesity …