Recent advances in comparative epigenetics

Animals are highly diverse in their physiology and phenotype, and each species exhibits unique biology designed to cope with environmental stressors and to maintain homeostasis. Advances in epigenetic research has revealed different strategies to address uncertainties presented by the environment, whether it be climate change, low oxygen environments, scarce food, chemical pollution, or changes in water quality, among other challenges. Epigenetics is broadly defined as a change in the molecular, biochemical, and/or morphological phenotype which does not involve a change in one's geneticPeer reviewe