Background Cytosine methylation is crucial for gene regulation and silencing of
transposable elements in mammals and plants. While this epigenetic mark is extensively …

Cytosine methylation is an important mechanism for dynamical regulation of gene
expression and transposable element (TE) mobility during plant developmental processes …

DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic mark in plants and many animals. How parental
alleles interact in progeny to influence the epigenome is poorly understood. We analyzed …

In plants, mammals and insects, some genes are methylated in the CG dinucleotide context,
a phenomenon called gene body methylation (gbM). It has been controversial whether this …

De novo genes, which originate from ancestral nongenic sequences, are one of the most
important sources of protein-coding genes. This origination process is crucial for the …

DNA methylation plays an important role in many biological processes. The mechanisms
underlying the establishment and maintenance of DNA methylation are well understood …

Soybean (Glycine max) and common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) share a polyploidy event~
59 MYA, followed by a Glycine‐specific whole genome duplication (WGD)~ 8–13 MYA …

Transposable elements (TEs) and their relics play major roles in genome evolution.
However, mobilization of TEs is usually deleterious and strongly repressed. In plants and …

The evolution of genes and genomes after polyploidization has been the subject of
extensive studies in evolutionary biology and plant sciences. While a significant number of …

Genome duplication is a powerful evolutionary force and is arguably most prominent in
plants, where several ancient whole-genome duplication events have been documented …