Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Range Expansion
H. E. Hanson, C. Wang, A. W. Schrey, A. L. Liebl, R. H. Y. Jiang, L. B. Martin
The paper investigates how CpG site number and DNA methylation vary across a Kenyan house sparrow range expansion, finding increased CpG sites at the invasion front and altered methylation patterns linked to phenotypic plasticity.
bioRxiv · Mar 7, 2020Evolutionary Biology