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An evolutionary case for functional gene body methylation in plants and animals
Methylation in the bodies of active genes is common in animals and vascular plants. Evolutionary patterns indicate homeostatic functions for this type of methylation.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5423413/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28486944 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1230-2 |
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author | Zilberman, Daniel |
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description | Methylation in the bodies of active genes is common in animals and vascular plants. Evolutionary patterns indicate homeostatic functions for this type of methylation. |
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spelling | pubmed-54234132017-05-10 An evolutionary case for functional gene body methylation in plants and animals Zilberman, Daniel Genome Biol Comment Methylation in the bodies of active genes is common in animals and vascular plants. Evolutionary patterns indicate homeostatic functions for this type of methylation. BioMed Central 2017-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5423413/ /pubmed/28486944 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1230-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Comment Zilberman, Daniel An evolutionary case for functional gene body methylation in plants and animals |
title | An evolutionary case for functional gene body methylation in plants and animals |
title_full | An evolutionary case for functional gene body methylation in plants and animals |
title_fullStr | An evolutionary case for functional gene body methylation in plants and animals |
title_full_unstemmed | An evolutionary case for functional gene body methylation in plants and animals |
title_short | An evolutionary case for functional gene body methylation in plants and animals |
title_sort | evolutionary case for functional gene body methylation in plants and animals |
topic | Comment |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5423413/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28486944 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1230-2 |
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