DNA Methylation: Mega-Year Inheritance with the Help of Darwin.

Cryptococcus neoformans / metabolism DNA Methylation / physiology Epigenesis, Genetic Selection, Genetic

Journal

Current biology : CB
ISSN: 1879-0445
Titre abrégé: Curr Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9107782

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
06 04 2020
Historique:
entrez: 8 4 2020
pubmed: 8 4 2020
medline: 2 1 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

DNA methylation in a fungal pathogen has persisted for millions of years without the enzyme that can efficiently add methyl groups de novo. This spectacular example of 'epigenetic' inheritance is explained by a super-efficient maintenance enzyme plus natural selection.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.034 PMID: 32259507
pubmed: 32259507
pii: S0960-9822(20)30207-4
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.034
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

R319-R321

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Adrian Bird (A)

Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK. Electronic address: a.bird@ed.ac.uk.

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Classifications MeSH

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