Poster presented at the NSA conference in Nashville in 2013. This research uses the Pacific Oyster as a model organism to characterize the distribution and identify potential functions of DNA methylation. We examined genome-wide methylation patterns to elucidate the mechanisms by which DNA methylation impacts transcriptional processes.
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