Epigenetic machinery is functionally conserved in cephalopods.
Filippo MacchiEric EdsingerKirsten C SadlerPublished in: BMC biology (2022)
Our results show that the DNA methylation and histone modification epigenetic machinery is conserved in cephalopods, and that, in octopus, 5-methyl-cytosine does not decorate transposable elements, but is enriched on the gene bodies of highly expressed genes and could cooperate with the histone code to regulate tissue-specific gene expression.