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Plant genic methylation: Conserved for 400 million years

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A broad-scale analysis of genic DNA methylation across the phylogeny of land plants reveals unexpected variation and provides insights into the evolutionary forces shaping it.

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Figure 1: Phylogeny of the species analysed for their genic methylation.

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  1. Korbinian Schneeberger is a Research Group Leader for Genome Plasticity and Computational Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.,

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Schneeberger, K. Plant genic methylation: Conserved for 400 million years. Nature Plants 2, 16003 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.3

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