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标题：Epigenetic synthesis: a need for a new paradigm for evolution in a contaminated world
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作者：David Crews ; Andrea C. Gore
期刊名称：F1000 Biology Reports
电子版ISSN：2051-7599
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
DOI：10.3410/B4-18
语种：English
出版社：Faculty of 1000 Ltd
摘要：Epigenetics is a perspective, not a set of techniques. Molecular biology and genetics are the dominant disciplines in biology today, but practitioners of these fields have only recently ‘rediscovered’ the importance of the environment. This has led to increasing research into molecular epigenetics and the interface between the environment and gene regulation. Beyond the study of epigenetic mechanisms at the level of the gene, more investigation of epigenetic outcomes at the level of both the individual organism and the evolution of the population is needed.