Recurrent acquisition of cytosine methyltransferases into eukaryotic retrotransposons

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RT @deMendoza_Alex: And just as a shameless self-promotion addendum, we found the opposite phenomenon happening in arthropods -host DNA bin…

And just as a shameless self-promotion addendum, we found the opposite phenomenon happening in arthropods -host DNA binding domains captured by transposons- and algae retrotransposons capturing cytosine methyltransferases. https://t.co/qYXxbKZzbU https:…

@EikeSteinig Those stats still hold! And we keep on finding amazing things about these genomes. E.g. chromosomes composed exclusively of simple repeats: https://t.co/mj4sYpqzKU or how retrotransposons contribute to the methylation of the genomes: https…

However, we previously found that various retrotransposons encode cytosine methyltransferases. So the arms race between transposons and DNA methylation seems more convoluted than previously expected (see chapter 1: https://t.co/BfzXmXspnV).

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