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Interviewer(s)
Art Woods, Marty Martin
Interviewee(s)
Frances Champagne
Description
How important are pathways other than DNA for transmitting traits from one generation to the next?
On this episode of Big Biology, we talk to neuroscientist Frances Champagne from the University of Texas at Austin. Using rodents, Frances studies how early-life experiences affect epigenetic marks and how those marks are passed from one generation to the next. We asked her how those marks influence rat behaviors, why this mechanism alters modern evolutionary theory, and whether the growing interest in epigenetics is vindicating Lamarck’s old ideas about the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Read France’s Functional Ecology paper on the interplay between maternal and paternal epigenetic effects in behavioral ecology!
Date Published
2019
Language
eng
Length of Episode
54 minutes, 42 seconds
Digital File Format
audio/mp3
Document Type
Podcast
Recommended Citation
Woods, Art and Martin, Marty, "Episode 029: Lick Your Kids" (2019). BigBiology Podcasts. 30.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/bigbiology_podcasts/30