Genome Biology (Jun 2017)

Epigenomics: dissecting hybridization and polyploidization

  • Scott A. Jackson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1254-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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Abstract Epigenetic profiling in diploid, allopolyploid, and domesticated cotton shows that despite most DNA methylation being conserved and stably inherited, alterations likely due to hybridization and domestication affect gene expression.