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SUBMITTER: Zeng J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2975444 | biostudies-literature | 2010
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Genome biology and evolution 20101005
A growing body of evidence suggests that DNA methylation is functionally divergent among different taxa. The recently discovered functional methylation system in the honeybee Apis mellifera presents an attractive invertebrate model system to study evolution and function of DNA methylation. In the honeybee, DNA methylation is mostly targeted toward transcription units (gene bodies) of a subset of genes. Here, we report an intriguing covariation of length and epigenetic status of honeybee genes. H ...[more]