Inherited epigenetics produced record fast evolution

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 09:31 in Biology & Nature

The domestication of chickens has given rise to rapid and extensive changes in genome function. A research team at Linköping University in Sweden has established that the changes are heritable, although they do not affect the DNA structure.

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