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The use of epigenetic phenomena for the improvement of sheep and cattle

This review considers the evidence for inheritance across generations of epigenetic marks and how this phenomenon could be exploited in the cattle and sheep industries. Epigenetic marks are chemical changes in the chromosomes that affect the expression of genes and hence the phenotype of the cell an...

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Autores principales: Goddard, Michael E., Whitelaw, Emma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25191337
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2014.00247