Cytosine methylation is a conserved epigenetic feature found throughout the phylum Platyhelminthes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Geyer, Kathrin K ^a   Chalmers, Iain W ^a   MacKintosh, Neil ^a   Hirst, Julie E ^a   Geoghegan, Rory ^a   Badets, Mathieu ^b   Brophy, Peter M ^a   Brehm, Klaus ^c   Hoffmann, Karl F ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 methyl cytosine; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Flatworm; Platyhelminthes

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 2; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; EPIGENETICS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HELMINTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATYHELMINTH; POLYCELIS NIGRA; PROTOPOLYSTOMA XENOPODIS; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; CYTOSINE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLATYHELMINTHS;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; METAZOA; MONOGENEA; PLATYHELMINTHES; POLYCELIS NIGRA; PROTOPOLYSTOMA XENOPODIS; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 84880018303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-462     Document Type: Article

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