Gigantic Genomes of Salamanders Indicate Body Temperature, not Genome Size, is the Driver of Global Methylation and 5-Methylcytosine Deamination in Vertebrates
A. N. Adams, R. D. Denton, R. L. Mueller
The paper measures CpG methylation and CpG dinucleotide levels in salamanders with large genomes and compares them to endo- and ectothermic vertebrates, finding no correlation between genome size and methylation levels.
bioRxiv · Sep 27, 2021Evolutionary Biology