Insulin-like signalling to the maternal germline controls progeny response to osmotic stress

In 1893 August Weismann proposed that information about the environment could not pass from somatic cells to germ cells, a hypothesis now known as the Weismann barrier. However, recent studies have indicated that parental exposure to environmental stress can modify progeny physiology and that parent...

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Main Authors: Furuta, Tokiko, Webster, Amy K., Baugh, L. Ryan, Arur, Swathi, Burton, Nicholas O, Kaplan, Rebecca D., Horvitz, Howard Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116543
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