Relationship of Productivity to Species Richness in the Xinjiang Temperate Grassland - Fig 3

<p>Variation in alpha (A) and beta diversity (B), ANPP (C) and the CV of ANPP (D) among meadow steppe (MS), typical steppe (TS) and desert steppe (DS) in the Xinjiang temperate grasslands.</p

Location, study area and sites distribution of this study.

<p>The green color represented the place where was dominated by grassland.</p

Relationship of Productivity to Species Richness in the Xinjiang Temperate Grassland - Fig 2

<p>Relationship of alpha and beta diversity, ANPP and the CV of ANPP with mean annual precipitation (MAP) (A,C,E,G) and mean annual temperature (MAT) (B,D,F,H) in the Xinjiang temperate grasslands. NS indicates that no significant relationship was detected.</p

Tet-Mediated Formation of 5‑Hydroxymethylcytosine in RNA

Oxidation of 5-methylcytosine in DNA by ten-eleven translocation (Tet) family of enzymes has been demonstrated to play a significant role in epigenetic regulation in mammals. We found that Tet enzymes also possess the activity of catalyzing the formation of 5-hydroxymethylcytidine (5-hmrC) in RNA <i>in vitro</i>. In addition, the catalytic domains of all three Tet enzymes as well as full-length Tet3 could induce the formation of 5-hmrC in human cells. Moreover, 5-hmrC was present at appreciable levels (∼1 per 5000 5-methylcytidine) in RNA of mammalian cells and tissues. Our results suggest the involvement of this oxidation in RNA biology