Epigenetics in wild guinea pigs

Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 11:00 in Biology & Nature

Fathers are able to adjust to increasing temperatures within their own lifetime and do transmit this information to their offspring. This has now been shown for the first time in a wild animal. The findings were the result of a project within the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation and have been published in the scientific journal Molecular Ecology.

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