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Chapter
The Enteric Nervous System and Gastrointestinal Innervation: Integrated Local and Central Control
The digestive system is innervated through its connections with the central nervous system (CNS) and by the enteric nervous system (ENS) within the wall of the gastrointestinal tract. The ENS works in concert ...
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Chapter
DNA Demethylation and Gene Imprinting in Flowering Plants
Gene imprinting is the monoallelic gene expression in a parent-of-origin-dependent manner that results from differential epigenetic states of the parental alleles. It is important for plant reproduction, in pa...
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Chapter
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants
Epigenetics is broadly defined as the heritable change in gene expression without base sequence alteration. Heritable epigenetic changes commonly occur from cell to cell in an individual organism during develo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Large-Scale Analysis of Phylogenetic Search Behavior
Phylogenetic analysis is used in all branches of biology with applications ranging from studies on the origin of human populations to investigations of the transmission patterns of HIV. Most phylogenetic analy...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Fitness Distance Correlation Measure for Evolutionary Trees
Phylogenetics is concerned with inferring the genealogical relationships between a group of organisms (or taxa), and this relationship is usually expressed as an evolutionary tree. However, inferring the phylo...