A metagenomic approach to identifying the sources of N6-methyldeoxyadenine (6mA) in eukaryotic DNA found no evidence of high 6mA abundances in sampled eukaryotes.
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Kong, Y. et al. Critical assessment of DNA adenine methylation in eukaryotes using quantitative deconvolution. Science 375, 515–522 (2022).
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Tang, L. Reassessing 6mA in eukaryotes. Nat Methods 19, 270 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01434-1
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