First genome methylation mapping in fruit fly

Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

The first mapping of genome methylation in the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster has been released by a team of scientists. This paper represents a major advance in the study of DNA methylation in insects. No previous study has succeeded in pinpointing the location of DNA methylation in the fly genome.

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