Centromeres are hotspots of cytosine methylation epimutations in a filamentous fungus
Mariana Villalba de la Peña, Clayton Hull-Crew, Taylor R Hutter…·Ilkka Kronholm
The paper identifies centromeres as hotspots for spontaneous DNA methylation epimutations in Neurospora crassa, showing these changes are mitotically stable and occur much more frequently than genetic mutations.