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ArticleEvolutionary applications2024

Modifications to gene body methylation do not alter gene expression plasticity in a reef-building coral.

Evelyn Abbott, Coral Loockerman, Mikhail V Matz

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Article in Evolutionary applications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. DNA methylation in invertebrate genomes and cell lineage plasticity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Evelyn AbbottDepartment of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1688-8473
Coral LoockermanUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Kaneohe Kaneohe Hawai'i USA.
Mikhail V MatzDepartment of Integrative Biology University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA.
The University of Texas at Austin · USUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As coral reefs continue to decline due to climate change, the role of coral epigenetics (specifically, gene body methylation, GBM) in coral acclimatization warrants investigation. The evidence is currently conflicting. In diverse animal phyla, the baseline GBM level is associated with gene function: continuously expressed "housekeeping" genes are typically highly methylated, while inducible context-dependent genes have low or no methylation at all. Some authors report an association between GBM and the environment and interpret this observation as evidence of the GBM's role in acclimatization. Yet, others argue that the correlation between GBM change and gene expression change is typically absent or negligible. Here, we used the reef-building coral,

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adaptationclimate changeepigeneticsphenotypic plasticitytranscriptomics

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