Epigenetics in the wild.
Studies of wild populations of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana have started to reveal how patterns of DNA methylation change in response to the local environment.
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, United States.
Adam J
AJ
Bewick
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, United States schmitz@uga.edu.
Robert J
RJ
Schmitz
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics*; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics*; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D004248:DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases / Q000235:genetics*; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D018745:Genome, Plant
D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D004248:DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases
DNA methylation; arabidopsis; epigenetics; evolutionary biology; genomics; local adaptation; plant biology; population genetics