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Parental experience modifies the Mimulus methylome.

BMC Genomics 2018 October 13
BACKGROUND: Transgenerational plasticity occurs when the environmental experience of an organism modifies the growth and development of its progeny. Leaf damage in Mimulus guttatus exhibits transgenerational plasticity mediated through differential expression of hundreds of genes. The epigenetic mechanisms that facilitate this response have yet to be described.

RESULTS: We performed whole genome bisulfite sequencing in the progeny of genetically identical damaged and control plants and developed a pipeline to compare differences in the mean and variance of methylation between treatment groups. We find that parental damage increases the variability of CG and CHG methylation among progeny, but does not alter the overall mean methylation. Instead it has positive effects in some regions and negative in others. We find 3,396 CHH, 203 CG, and 54 CHG Differentially Methylated Regions (DMRs) ranging from tens to thousands of base pairs scattered across the genome. CHG and CHH DMRs tended to overlap with transposable elements. CG DMRs tended to overlap with gene coding regions, many of which were previously found to be differentially expressed.

CONCLUSIONS: Genome-wide increases in methylome variation suggest that parental conditions can increase epigenetic diversity in response to stress. Additionally, the potential association between CG DMRs and differentially expressed genes supports the hypothesis that differential methylation is a mechanistic component of transgenerational plasticity in M. guttatus.

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