Past, present and future of epigenetics applied to livestock breeding

This article reviews the concept of Lamarckian inheritance and the use of the term epigenetics in the field of animal genetics. Epigenetics was first coined by Conrad Hal Waddington (1905-1975), who derived the term from the Aristotelian word epigenesis. There exists some controversy around the word...

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Main Authors: Oscar eGonzalez-Recio, Miguel Angel Toro, Alex eBach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2015.00305/full