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Comment
. 2016 Sep 27;17(1):197.
doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-1065-2.

Prodigious plant methylomes

Mary Gehring  1
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Comment

Prodigious plant methylomes

Mary Gehring. Genome Biol. .

Abstract

Schmitz and colleagues recently investigated DNA methylation patterns in diverse flowering plant species, finding substantial variation in the extent and distribution of methylation in angiosperms.Please see related Research article: http://www.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1059-0.

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Fig. 1
Generic methylation patterns in plants. Genes (dark orange boxes) are CG methylated (blue dots) but can also contain non-CG methylation (green and red dots) if TEs or TE fragments (light orange boxes) are present internally. TEs are methylated in all sequence contexts, with CHH methylation more concentrated at TE ends than internal regions in some species. Other sequence features, such as direct repeats (green arrows), are also subject to DNA methylation in all sequence contexts
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Comment on

  • Widespread natural variation of DNA methylation within angiosperms.
    Niederhuth CE, Bewick AJ, Ji L, Alabady MS, Kim KD, Li Q, Rohr NA, Rambani A, Burke JM, Udall JA, Egesi C, Schmutz J, Grimwood J, Jackson SA, Springer NM, Schmitz RJ. Niederhuth CE, et al. Genome Biol. 2016 Sep 27;17(1):194. doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-1059-0. Genome Biol. 2016. PMID: 27671052 Free PMC article.

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