Regulatory DNA in A. thaliana can tolerate high levels of sequence divergence
Cristina M Alexandre, James R. Urton, Ken Jean-Baptiste, Michael W. Dorrity, Josh T. Cuperus, A.M. Sullivan, Felix Bemm, Dino Jolić, Andrej Adam Arsovski, A. Thompson, Jennifer L. Nemhauser, Stanley Fields, Detlef Weigel, Kerry L. Bubb, Christine Queitsch
The paper examines regulatory DNA variation in Arabidopsis thaliana, finding that chromatin accessibility differences often correlate with gene expression changes despite limited sequence variation.
bioRxiv · Jan 30, 2017 · PreprintGenomics