Shifting behaviour: Epigenetic reprogramming in eusocial insects

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 367-373

  Patalano, Solenn ^a   Hore, Timothy A ^a   Reik, Wolf ^a,b   Sumner, Seirian ^c  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DYNACTIN;

CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; GASTRULATION; GENE REPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HONEYBEE; INSECT CASTE; INSECT SOCIETY; LARVA; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRIBOLIUM; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; INSECTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861998088     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2012.02.005     Document Type: Review

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