[PDF][PDF] Gene body methylation in plants: mechanisms, functions, and important implications for understanding evolutionary processes

AM Muyle, DK Seymour, Y Lv, B Huettel… - Genome biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gene body methylation (gbM) is an epigenetic mark where gene exons are methylated in
the CG context only, as opposed to CHG and CHH contexts (where H stands for A, C, or T) …

The epigenetic control of the transposable element life cycle in plant genomes and beyond

P Liu, D Cuerda-Gil, S Shahid… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Within the life cycle of a living organism, another life cycle exists for the selfish genome
inhabitants, which are called transposable elements (TEs). These mobile sequences invade …

Structural variants and speciation: multiple processes at play

EL Berdan, TG Aubier, S Cozzolino… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Research on the genomic architecture of speciation has increasingly revealed the
importance of structural variants (SVs) that affect the presence, abundance, position, and/or …

Staying true to yourself: mechanisms of DNA methylation maintenance in mammals

N Petryk, S Bultmann, T Bartke… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is essential to development and cellular physiology in mammals. Faulty
DNA methylation is frequently observed in human diseases like cancer and neurological …

The dynamism of transposon methylation for plant development and stress adaptation

M Ramakrishnan, L Satish, R Kalendar… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant development processes are regulated by epigenetic alterations that shape nuclear
structure, gene expression, and phenotypic plasticity; these alterations can provide the plant …

The important contribution of transposable elements to phenotypic variation and evolution

NS Catlin, EB Josephs - Current opinion in plant biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Transposable elements (TEs) are responsible for significant genomic variation in plants. Our
understanding of the evolutionary forces shaping TE polymorphism has lagged behind other …

High-quality genome and methylomes illustrate features underlying evolutionary success of oaks

VL Sork, SJ Cokus, ST Fitz-Gibbon, AV Zimin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The genus Quercus, which emerged∼ 55 million years ago during globally warm
temperatures, diversified into∼ 450 extant species. We present a high-quality de novo …

Transposable elements: major players in shaping genomic and evolutionary patterns

N Colonna Romano, L Fanti - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous genetic elements, able to jump from one
location of the genome to another, in all organisms. For this reason, on the one hand, TEs …

The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities

V Peona, OM Palacios-Gimenez… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It is a broadly observed pattern that the non-recombining regions of sex-limited
chromosomes (Y and W) accumulate more repeats than the rest of the genome, even in …

Recombination suppression and evolutionary strata around mating‐type loci in fungi: documenting patterns and understanding evolutionary and mechanistic causes

FE Hartmann, M Duhamel, F Carpentier… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Genomic regions determining sexual compatibility often display recombination suppression,
as occurs in sex chromosomes, plant self‐incompatibility loci and fungal mating‐type loci …