Fig. 3From: The methylome of the marbled crayfish links gene body methylation to stable expression of poorly accessible genesComparative analysis of gene body and repeat methylation patterns from different developmental stages, tissues and animals. a Comparative analysis of gene body methylation patterns. The heatmap shows average gene body methylation levels in eight independent samples (columns). Methylation levels are indicated on a scale from 0 (blue) to 1 (red). Only genes with sufficient coverage in all eight samples are shown. E1.7: stage 1.7 embryos, hep.: hepatopancreas, musc.: abdominal musculature, hemo: hemocytes. Colors denote individual animals. b Parallel analysis of housekeeping genes. c Methylation of the most frequent repeat classes. LINEs (long interspersed nuclear elements): N = 25,622, SINEs (short interspersed nuclear elements): N = 14,821, DNAs (DNA transposons): N = 7144, LTRs (long terminal repeats): N = 6483, simple (simple repeats): N = 3889. d Location-dependent methylation of repeatsBack to article page