150 years of Darwin's theory of intercellular flow of hereditary information

Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2018 Dec;19(12):749-750. doi: 10.1038/s41580-018-0072-4.

Authors

Yongsheng Liu^{1

2}, Qi Chen³

Affiliations

¹ Henan Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Biological Breeding, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, China.
² Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
³ Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, USA. cqi@med.unr.edu.

Abstract

Charles Darwin's Pangenesis theory, which proposed an intercellular mechanism for the flow of hereditary information, is gaining new ground.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution
Evolution, Molecular
Extracellular Vesicles / genetics*
Heredity / genetics*
Heredity / physiology*
Humans
Selection, Genetic / genetics
Selection, Genetic / physiology

Grants and funding

R01 HD092431/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States