Birds do it, bees do it, worms and ciliates do it too DNA methylation from unexpected corners of the tree of life.docVIP

Yi Genome Biology 2012,13:174 /2012/13/10/174 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT Birds do it, bees do it, worms and ciliates do it too: DNA methylation from unexpected corners of the tree of life Soojin Yi * 1 See related research articles /2012/13/10/R99 and /2012/13/10/R100 Abstract genomes, yet are frequently gained or lost from genomes Studies describing intricate patterns of DNA methylation in nematode and ciliate are controversial due to the uncertainty of genomic evolutionary conservation of DNA methylation enzymes. as a result of gene duplications and losses in speci? c lineages [