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Gene body methylation is conserved between plant orthologs and is of evolutionary consequence.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Jan 2013
Takuno Shohei, Gaut Brandon S
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DNA methylation is a common feature of eukaryotic genomes and is especially common in noncoding regions of plants. Protein coding regions of plants are often methylated also, but the extent, function, and evolutionary consequences of gene body methylation remain unclear. Here we investigate gene body methylation using an explicit comparative evolutionary approach. We generated bisulfite sequencing data from two...
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