Epigenetics: a possible role in acute and transgenerational regulation of dairy cow milk production
A potential role for epigenetic mechanisms in the regulation of mammary function in the dairy cow is emerging. Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in genome function that occur because of chemical changes rather than DNA sequence changes. DNA methylation is an epigenetic event that results...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2012-01-01
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Series: | Animal |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731111002564 |