The concerted impact of domestication and transposon insertions on methylation patterns between dogs and grey wolves

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1838-1855

  Janowitz Koch, Ilana ^a   Clark, Michelle M ^b   Thompson, Michael J ^c   Deere Machemer, Kerry A ^a   Wang, Jun ^d   Duarte, Lionel ^b   Gnanadesikan, Gitanjali E ^a   McCoy, Eskender L ^e   Rubbi, Liudmilla ^c   Stahler, Daniel R ^f   Pellegrini, Matteo ^c   Ostrander, Elaine A ^g   Wayne, Robert K ^c   Sinsheimer, Janet S ^b,h   VonHoldt, Bridgett M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^f NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

canid; domestication; genome regulation; methylation

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSON;

ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; DOMESTICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PEDIGREE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; WOLF;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DOGS; DOMESTICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WOLVES;

EID: 84955270239     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13480     Document Type: Article

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