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Arabidopsis Methylated Genome

Caption: This is a map of the methylation status of the genome of male sexual cells, and their progenitors, in Arabidopsis thaliana. In the center, there is an image of a pollen grain with the vegetative nucleus marked in red and the sperm cells in green.

Credit: Filipe Borges, IGC, Portugal, and Joseph Calarco, CSHL, USA, 2012

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