The basis of bee-ing different: The role of gene silencing in plasticity

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 511-513

  Moczek, Armin P ^a   Snell Rood, Emilie C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; DNA; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; METHYLATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; BEE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BEES; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING;

APOIDEA;

EID: 51249123077     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00264.x     Document Type: Short Survey

References (18)

1. Binz, T., D'Mello, N. Horgen, P. A. 1998. A comparison of DNA methylation levels in selected isolates of higher fungi. Mycologia 90 : 785 790.
2. Bird, A. 2002. DNA methylation patterns and epigenetic memory. Genes Dev. 16 : 6 21.
3. Bruce, T. J. A., Matthes, M. C., Napier, J. A. Pickett, J. A. 2007. Stressful "memories" of plants: evidence and possible mechanisms. Plant Sci. 173 : 603 608.
4. Feinberg, A. P. 2007. Phenotypic plasticity and the epigenetics of human disease. Nature 447 : 433 440.
5. Field, L. M., Lyko, F., Mandrioli, M. Prantera, G. 2004. DNA methylation in insects. Insect Mol. Biol. 13 : 109 115.
6. Finnegan, E. J., Genger, R. K., Peacock, W. J. Dennis, E. S. 1998. DNA methylation in plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 49 : 223 247.
7. Francis, N. J. Kingston, R. E. 2001. Mechanisms of transcriptional memory. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 2 : 409 421.
8. Hendrich, B. Tweedie, S. 2003. The methyl-CpG binding domain and the evolving role of DNA methylation in animals. Trends Genet. 19 : 269 277.
9. Jaenisch, R. Bird, A. 2003. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression: how the genome integrates intrinsic and environmental signals. Nat. Genet. 33 : S245 S254.
10. Kronforst, M. R., Gilley, D. C., Strassmann, J. E. Queller, D. C. 2008. DNA methylation is widespread across social hymenoptera. Curr. Biol. 18 : R287 R288.
11. Kucharski, R., Maleszka, J., Foret, S. Maleszka, R. 2008. Nutritional control of reproductive status in honeybees via DNA methylation. Science 319 : 1827 1830.
12. Marhold, J., et al. 2004. Conservation of DNA methylation in dipteran insects. Insect Mol. Biol. 13 : 117 123.
13. Moore, T. Haig, D. 1991. Genomic imprinting in mammalian development: a parental tug-of-war. Trends Genet. 7 : 45 49.
14. Nijhout, H. F. 1994. Insect Hormones. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
15. Reik, W. Walter, J. 2001. Genomic imprinting: parental influence on the genome. Nat. Rev. Genet. 2 : 21 32.
16. Walsh, C. P. Bestor, T. H. 1999. Cytosine methylation and mammalian development. Genes Dev. 13 : 26 34.
17. Wang, Y., et al. 2006. Functional CpG methylation system in a social insect. Science 314 : 645 647.
18. West-Eberhard, M. J. 2003. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.