表观遗传学
生物
基因组
进化生物学
昆虫
表型
计算生物学
遗传学
生态学
基因
DNA甲基化
基因表达
作者
Andrew G. Cridge,Megan Leask,Elizabeth J. Duncan,Peter K. Dearden
出处
期刊:Nutrients
[MDPI AG]
日期:2015-03-11
卷期号:7 (3): 1787-1797
被引量:18
摘要
Many insects are capable of remarkable changes in biology and form in response to their environment or diet. The most extreme example of these are polyphenisms, which are when two or more different phenotypes are produced from a single genotype in response to the environment. Polyphenisms provide a fascinating opportunity to study how the environment affects an animal’s genome, and how this produces changes in form. Here we review the current state of knowledge of the molecular basis of polyphenisms and what can be learnt from them to understand how nutrition may influence our own genomes.
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