Methylation is the primary transposon suppression mechanism, so methylation levels would tell us the extent to which transposons are suppressed at a given instant, but not the number of live transposon copies.
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Methylation is the primary transposon suppression mechanism, so methylation levels would tell us the extent to which transposons are suppressed at a given instant, but not the number of live transposon copies.