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SUBMITTER: Lonsdale Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5600721 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lonsdale Zoë Z Lee Kate K Kiriakidu Maria M Amarasinghe Harindra H Nathanael Despina D O'Connor Catherine J CJ Mallon Eamonn B EB
PeerJ 20170913
The social hymenoptera are emerging as models for epigenetics. DNA methylation, the addition of a methyl group, is a common epigenetic marker. In mammals and flowering plants methylation affects allele specific expression. There is contradictory evidence for the role of methylation on allele specific expression in social insects. The aim of this paper is to investigate allele specific expression and monoallelic methylation in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris. We found nineteen genes that were bo ...[more]