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Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Eukaryotic DNA Methylation

Zemach, Assaf, McDaniel, Ivy E., Silva, Pedro, Zilberman, Daniel·2010·Science

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Epigenetic Maps: Methylation of genomic DNA on cytosine bases provides critical epigenetic regulation of gene expression and is involved in silencing transposable elements (TEs) and repeated sequences, as well as regulating imprinted gene expression. Zemach et al. (p. 916 , published online 15 April; see the Perspective by Jeltsch ) analyzed DNA methylation in the genomes of five plants, five fungi, and seven animals by bisulfite sequencing. The data suggest that land plants and vertebrates, which have extensive DNA methylation, are under strong selective pressure to repress TEs, because of their sexual mode of reproduction. Unicellular animals and fungi that reproduce asexually are more likely to lose TE methylation. Although gene body methylation is evolutionarily ancient, it is also mutagenic, and so loss of this pathway has been relatively common and occurred early in fungal evolution and later in several plant and animal lineages.

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Authors
Zemach, A., McDaniel, I. E., Silva, P., & Zilberman, D.
Venue
Science
Published
2010-05-14
Volume
328
Issue
5980
Pages
916-919
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
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W2024848067
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journal article
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en
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