Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods
Samuel H. Lewis, Laura Ross, Stevie A. Bain, Eleni Pahita, Stephen A. Smith, Richard Cordaux, Eric Alexander Miska, Boris Lenhard, Francis M. Jiggins, Peter Sarkies
The paper investigates the evolution of DNA methylation patterns across arthropods, finding widespread conservation of exon methylation in specific genes and lineage-specific changes in TE and promoter methylation.
PLoS Genetics · Jun 25, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics