Birds do it, bees do it, worms and ciliates do it too: DNA methylation from unexpected corners of the tree of life
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- 17 October 2012
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Springer Nature in Genome Biology
- Vol. 13 (10) , 1-3
Abstract
Studies describing intricate patterns of DNA methylation in nematode and ciliate are controversial due to the uncertainty of genomic evolutionary conservation of DNA methylation enzymes. See related research articles http://genomebiology.com/2012/13/10/R99 and http://genomebiology.com/2012/13/10/R100Keywords
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