DNA methylation and genetic degeneration of the Y chromosome in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia.

Jose Luis Rodriguez LorenzoRoman HobzaBoris Vyskot

Published in: BMC genomics (2018)

We speculate that TE accumulation and not gene decay is the cause of DNA methylation in the S. latifolia Y sex chromosome with influence on the process of heterochromatinization.

Keyphrases

dna methylation
copy number
genome wide
gene expression
transcription factor