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. 2018 Dec;19(12):749-750.
doi: 10.1038/s41580-018-0072-4.

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

Yongsheng Liu  1   2 , Qi Chen  3
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150 years of Darwin's theory of intercellular flow of hereditary information

Yongsheng Liu et al. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2018 Dec.

Abstract

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

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