Tracing the origin and evolution history of methylation-related genes in plants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

DNA methylation is a crucial epigenetic modification, which is involved in many biological processes, including gene expression regulation, embryonic development, cell differentiation and genomic imprinting etc. And it also involves many key regulatory genes in eukaryotes. By tracing the evolutionary history of methylation-related genes, we can understand the origin and expansion time of these genes, which helps to understand the evolutionary history of plants, and we can also understand the changes of DNA methylation patterns in different species. However, most studies on the evolution of methylation-related genes failed to be carried out for the whole DNA methylation pathway.

Results

In this study, we conducted a comprehensive identification of 33 methylation-re

SUBMITTER: Pei L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6624907 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature