Short-term heritable variation overwhelms two hundred generations of mutational variance for metabolic traits in Caenorhabditis elegans
C. F. Baer, D. Hahn, L. M. Johnson, O. J. Smith
The paper quantifies short-term heritable variation in metabolic traits of C. elegans and finds it comparable to mutational variance, suggesting epigenetic factors may significantly contribute to metabolic disease heritability.
bioRxiv · Feb 5, 2020Evolutionary Biology