Cytosine methylation of repeated sequences in eukaryotes: the role of DNA pairing

A genomic sequencing protocol that yields a positive display of 5-methylcytosine residues in individual DNA strands.

1992 • 3,099 citations

Cytosine methylation and the ecology of intragenomic parasites

1997 • 1,906 citations

DNA Modification Mechanisms and Gene Activity During Development

1975 • 1,859 citations

Nested Retrotransposons in the Intergenic Regions of the Maize Genome

1996 • 1,392 citations

X inactivation, differentiation, and DNA methylation

1975 • 1,283 citations

Repeat-induced gene silencing in mammals

1998 • 884 citations

Arabidopsis thaliana DNA Methylation Mutants

1993 • 674 citations

PREMEIOTIC INSTABILITY OF REPEATED SEQUENCES IN NEUROSPORA CRASSA

1990 • 648 citations

How does DNA methylation repress transcription?

1997 • 532 citations

Expansions of transgene repeats cause heterochromatin formation and gene silencing in Drosophila

1994 • 506 citations

Rearrangement of duplicated DNA in specialized cells of Neurospora

1987 • 366 citations

Creation of genomic methylation patterns

1996 • 313 citations

Epigenetic repeat-induced gene silencing (RIGS) inArabidopsis

1993 • 283 citations

Epigenetic control of an endogenous gene family is revealed by a novel blue fluorescent mutant of arabidopsis

1995 • 242 citations

DNA sequence duplications trigger gene inactivation in Neurospora crassa.

1988 • 235 citations

The DNA methylation locusDDM1 is required for maintenance of gene silencing in Arabidopsis

1998 • 223 citations

DNA methylation inhibits elongation but not initiation of transcription in Neurospora crassa

1997 • 202 citations

Suppression of crossing-over by DNA methylation in Ascobolus

1998 • 190 citations

Active maize genes are unmodified and flanked by diverse classes of modified, highly repetitive DNA

1994 • 187 citations

Post‐transcriptional silencing of chalcone synthase in Petunia by inverted transgene repeats

1997 • 180 citations

Release of epigenetic gene silencing by trans-acting mutations in Arabidopsis

1998 • 157 citations

Potential Advantages of Unstable Interactions for Pairing of Chromosomes in Meiotic, Somatic, and Premeiotic Cells

1993 • 156 citations

Paramutation and transgene silencing: a common response to invasive DNA?

1996 • 139 citations

A Gene Essential for De Novo Methylation and Development in Ascobolus Reveals a Novel Type of Eukaryotic DNA Methyltransferase Structure

1997 • 134 citations

Transposon-mediated chromosomal rearrangements and gene duplications in the formation of the maize R-r complex.

1995 • 134 citations

Genetic Isolation, Cloning, and Analysis of a Mutator-Induced, Dominant Antimorph of the Maize amylose extender1 Locus.

1993 • 121 citations

Methylation induced premeiotically in Ascobolus: coextension with DNA repeat lengths and effect on transcript elongation.

1993 • 120 citations

Dense Nonsymmetrical DNA Methylation Resulting from Repeat-Induced Point Mutation in Neurospora

1993 • 110 citations

Parallel DNA triplexes, homologous recombination, and other homology-dependent DNA interactions

1993 • 103 citations

DNA Methylation Associated with Repeat-Induced Point Mutation inNeurospora crassa

1995 • 97 citations

Paramutation of the r1 Locus of Maize Is Associated With Increased Cytosine Methylation

1998 • 97 citations

Molecular organization and germinal instability of R-stippled maize.

1995 • 91 citations

Epigenetic phenomena: Epigenetic phenomena: Paramutation and gene silencing in plants

1996 • 91 citations

Organization of paramutagenicity in R-stippled maize.

1995 • 86 citations

How does the cell count the number of ectopic copies of a gene in the premeiotic inactivation process acting in Ascobolus immersus?

1990 • 77 citations

Allelic interactions at the nivea locus of Antirrhinum.

1991 • 67 citations

Signal for DNA methylation associated with tandem duplication in Neurospora crassa.

1987 • 65 citations

Perpetuation of Cytosine Methylation in Ascobolus immersus Implies a Novel Type of Maintenance Methylase

1994 • 56 citations

Genetics of homology‐dependent gene silencing in Arabidopsis; a role for methylation

1997 • 48 citations

Occurrence of Repeat Induced Point Mutation in Long Segmental Duplications of Neurospora

1997 • 45 citations

Molecular genetic analysis of Drosophila rDNA arrays

1992 • 44 citations

Genetic Isolation, Cloning, and Analysis of a Mutator-Induced, Dominant Antimorph of the Maize amylose extender1 Locus

1993 • 44 citations

Methylation of DNA Repeats of Decreasing Sizes in Ascobolus immersus

1996 • 35 citations

Isolation of the Ascobolus immersus spore color gene b2 and study in single cells of gene silencing by methylation induced premeiotically.

1995 • 22 citations

Masc2, a C5-DNA-Methyltransferase from Ascobolus immersus with Similarity to Methyltransferases of Higher Organisms

1997 • 16 citations