Conservation and divergence in eukaryotic DNA methylation

T Lee, J Zhai, BC Meyers - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
methylation sequence contexts, cytosine methylation is … adaptations and conservation of
DNA methylation, inevitably … For instance, the function of conserved, genic methylation is still …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue-specific DNA methylation is conserved across human, mouse, and rat, and driven by primary sequence conservation

J Zhou, RL Sears, X Xing, B Zhang, D Li… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
… Conserved DNA methylation is associated with conservation of … conservation of primary
genomic sequences. We found that the evolutionary dynamics of tissue-specific DNA methylation

Conservation and divergence of DNA methylation in eukaryotes: new insights from single base-resolution DNA methylomes

Z Su, L Han, Z Zhao - Epigenetics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… New approaches combining BS conversion and next-generation sequencing allow us to
measure the DNA methylation level more accurately and comprehensively. In addition to …

Conservation of DNA methylation in dipteran insects

J Marhold, N Rothe, A Pauli, C Mund… - Insect Molecular …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… However, the high conservation of the protein sequences has … high conservation of Dnmt2
open reading frames in all species tested. In addition, significant amounts of DNA methylation

Determining the conservation of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

N Widman, SE Jacobsen, M Pellegrini - Epigenetics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… To estimate the conservation of methylation in these aligned sequences the Pearson
correlations between the paired values of each gene or repeat was then computed. …

DNA methylation is associated with an increased level of conservation at nondegenerate nucleotides in mammals

TJ Chuang, FC Chen - Molecular biology and evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation and the conservation of individual nucleotides are dependent on the type of
exonic sequence (… ’s comments in that DNA methylation in different sequence contexts may …

Conservation and divergence of methylation patterning in plants and animals

S Feng, SJ Cokus, X Zhang, PY Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
… , determining precise genome-scale methylation patterns has been a … sequencing technology.
In this paper, we generated shotgun bisulfite sequencing data to profile DNA methylation

Evolutionary conservation of DNA methylation in CpG sites within ultraconserved noncoding elements

M Colwell, M Drown, K Showel, C Drown, A Palowski… - Epigenetics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… Despite extreme sequence conservationDNA methylation in these regions. Here, we
surveyed UCNEs with high CpG density in 56 species finding half to be intermediately methylated

Functional conservation of DNA methylation in the pea aphid and the honeybee

BG Hunt, JA Brisson, SV Yi… - Genome biology and …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… Surprisingly, in contrast to our results from analysis of DNA sequence identity, we found
that densely methylated genes with detectable orthologs may be under less constraint at the …

Protection of CpG islands from DNA methylation is DNA-encoded and evolutionarily conserved

HK Long, HW King, RK Patient, DT Odom… - Nucleic Acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… -restricted repeat sequences that evaded DNA methylation in the … methylation to these
sequences, and species specific DNA binding events that protected against DNA methylation in …