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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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Autor principal: Zilberman, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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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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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.
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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
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