David B. Lyons

The paper develops a mathematical model to explain how DNA methylation patterns are established and inherited in Arabidopsis thaliana genes, showing they undergo long-term epigenetic fluctuations.

The paper shows that de novo methylation stabilizes epigenetic inheritance of CG methylation in Arabidopsis transposons, counteracting maintenance failure.

The paper shows that histone H1 prevents non-CG methylation-mediated small RNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis heterochromatin by excluding RdDM from non-CG methylated regions.

The paper shows that DNA methylation and histone H1 work together to silence transposable elements and aberrant intragenic transcripts in Arabidopsis thaliana.