DNA methylation plays a role in the repression of gene expression in animal cells. In the
mouse preimplantation embryo, most genes are unmethylated but a wave of de novo …

Epigenetic mechanisms are an underappreciated and often ignored component of an
organism's response to environmental change and may underlie many types of phenotypic …

Methylation of DNA is an essential epigenetic control mechanism in mammals. During
embryonic development, cells are directed toward their future lineages, and DNA …

The embryogenesis period is critical for epigenetic reprogramming and is thus of great
significance in the research field of poultry epigenetics for elucidation of the trends in DNA …

DNA methylation occurs on cytosines, is catalyzed by DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs),
and is present at high levels in all vertebrates. DNA methylation plays essential roles in …

DNA methylation is implicated in modulating gene transcription in a wide array of taxa.
However, a complete understanding of the specific function of DNA methylation requires …

The role of epigenetics in development has garnered attention in recent years due to their
ability to modulate the embryonic developmental gene expression in response to the …

Several lines of evidence strongly suggest that DNA methylation is involved in embryo
development. Perhaps the most direct evidence comes from experiments with …

DNA methylation is highly dynamic during mammalian embryogenesis. It is broadly
accepted that the paternal genome is actively depleted of 5-methylcytosine at fertilization …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) methylation
from embryo to adult. The existence of tissue-specific methylation patterns and the results of …