Parent-of-origin effects on genome-wide DNA methylation in the Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis) may be confounded by allele-specific methylation

Table 1 Coverage and context of cytosine methylation in fertilized and thelytokous embryo samples

		Cytosine context (number of sites with 2–30 fold coverage)
		CG	CHG	CHH	All cytosines
Genome (Amel2.0)	Total	20,060,266	8,673,586	45,077,073	73,810,925
Fertilized embryos	Total covered	15,923,958	6,805,662	31,027,094	53,756,741
	% of genome covered	79.4	78.5	68.8	72.8
	Total methylated	114,156	3,131	41,607	158,894
	% methylation	0.72	0.05	0.13	0.30
Thelytokous embryos	Total covered	16,116,870	6,758,019	31,180,274	1,523
	% of genome covered	80.3	77.9	69.2	73.2
	Total methylated	99,923	886	12,551	113,361
	% methylation	0.62	0.01	0.04	0.21
Fertilized vs Thelytokous	Methylated in both	74,798	86	475	75,060
	Unique to Fertilized	21,202	2,149	24,526	47,880
	Unique to Thelytokous	16,004	682	9,699	26,385

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