TRANSPOSON CONTROL. “Plants, as well as other highly developed multicellular organisms, show increased DNA methylation when compared with other eukaryotic organisms, probably due to the need for more efficient control of transposons, or the need for additional epigenetic regulation to control the development of many different cell types.”
http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/11/3713.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022