Species-wide patterns of DNA methylation variation in Quercus lobata and their association with climate gradients

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1665-1680

  Gugger, Paul F ^a,b   Fitz Gibbon, Sorel ^a   Pellegrini, Matteo ^a   Sork, Victoria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; environmental association analysis; epigenomics; local adaptation; Quercus lobata; reduced representation bisulphite sequencing

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OAK; PLANT GENOME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUERCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84960937997     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13563     Document Type: Article

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