Research from CHORI scientists demonstrates first genome methylation in fruit fly

Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 17:30 in Biology & Nature

A group of scientists from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute and UC Berkeley report the first mapping of genome methylation in the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster in their paper "Genome methylation in D. melanogaster is found at specific short motifs and is independent of DNMT2 activity," published this month in Genome Research.

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