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    DNA Methylation and Epigenetic Inheritance in Plants and Filamentous Fungi

    Robert A. Martienssen, Vincent Colot

    The Science, August 2001, 293: 1070 - 1074.

    In plants and filamentous fungi, DNA methylation is associated with gene silencing and transposon control. However, plants and fungi differ from mammals in the genomic distribution, sequence specificity, and heritability of methylation.