[HTML][HTML] Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods

SH Lewis, L Ross, SA Bain, E Pahita, SA Smith… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Cytosine methylation is an ancient epigenetic modification yet its function and extent within
genomes is highly variable across eukaryotes. In mammals, methylation controls …

DNA methylation in insects: on the brink of the epigenomic era

KM Glastad, BG Hunt, SV Yi… - Insect molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
DNA methylation plays an important role in gene regulation in animals. However, the
evolution and function of DNA methylation has only recently emerged as the subject of …

Evolutionary insights into DNA methylation in insects

KM Glastad, BG Hunt, MAD Goodisman - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark affecting gene
function.•Different insect species show great variation in levels of DNA methylation.•DNA …

Signatures of DNA methylation across insects suggest reduced DNA methylation levels in Holometabola

P Provataris, K Meusemann, O Niehuis… - Genome biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
It has been experimentally shown that DNA methylation is involved in the regulation of gene
expression and the silencing of transposable element activity in eukaryotes. The variable …

The function of intragenic DNA methylation: insights from insect epigenomes

BG Hunt, KM Glastad, SV Yi… - Integrative and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetic inheritance plays a fundamentally important role in mediating gene regulation
and phenotypic plasticity. DNA methylation, in particular, has been the focus of many recent …

The evolution of invertebrate gene body methylation

S Sarda, J Zeng, BG Hunt, SV Yi - Molecular biology and …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation of transcription units (gene bodies) occurs in the genomes of many animal
and plant species. Phylogenetic persistence of gene body methylation implies biological …

[HTML][HTML] Is there a relationship between DNA methylation and phenotypic plasticity in invertebrates?

SB Roberts, MR Gavery - Frontiers in physiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
There is a significant amount of variation in DNA methylation characteristics across
organisms. Likewise, the biological role of DNA methylation varies across taxonomic …

Patterning and regulatory associations of DNA methylation are mirrored by histone modifications in insects

BG Hunt, KM Glastad, SV Yi… - Genome biology and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetic information is an important mediator of the relationship between genotype and
phenotype in eukaryotic organisms. One of the most important and widely conserved forms …

Evolutionary transition of promoter and gene body DNA methylation across invertebrate–vertebrate boundary

TE Keller, P Han, SV Yi - Molecular biology and evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Genomes of invertebrates and vertebrates exhibit highly divergent patterns of DNA
methylation. Invertebrate genomes tend to be sparsely methylated, and DNA methylation is …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative analysis of genome-scale, base-resolution DNA methylation profiles across 580 animal species

J Klughammer, D Romanovskaia, A Nemc… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Methylation of cytosines is a prototypic epigenetic modification of the DNA. It has been
implicated in various regulatory mechanisms across the animal kingdom and particularly in …