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Leyun Xiao

The University of TokyoORCID 0009-0003-3091-7936Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:C. elegans· 1 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 1 Approach:comparative / phylogenetic analysis· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintOct 23, 2025

Programmed DNA elimination was present in the last common ancestor of Caenorhabditis nematodes

Lewis Stevens, Simo Sun, Nami Haruta…·Mark Blaxter

The paper identifies programmed DNA elimination in three Caenorhabditis species, showing it was present in their last common ancestor and later lost in some lineages.

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