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+[[!meta title="DNA methylation in amphioxus: from ancestral functions to new roles in vertebrates."]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura epigenetic methylation]]
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+Albalat R, Martí-Solans J, Cañestro C
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+Brief Funct Genomics. 2012 Mar;11(2):142-55. doi:10.1093/bfgp/els009
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+DNA methylation in amphioxus: from ancestral functions to new roles in vertebrates.
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+[[!pmid 22389042 desc="Only Dnmt2 (Trdmt1) is found in Oikopleura."]]
### Lost
- - _O. dioica_ lacks Dnmt1 and Dnmt3 ([[Cañestro, Yokoi and Postlethwait, 2007|biblio/18007650]]).
+ - _O. dioica_ lacks Dnmt1 and Dnmt3 ([[Cañestro, Yokoi and Postlethwait, 2007|biblio/18007650]],
+ [[Albalat, Martí-Solans and Cañestro, 2012|biblio/22389042]]).
It has Dnmt2, but this is a tRNA methyltransferase and it was later renamed Trdmt1 accordingly.
- CYP1 family genes and their regulator AhR are not detectable
([[Yadetie et al, 2012|biblio/22300585]]).