DNA methylation mediates the discriminatory power of associative long-term memory in honeybees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Biergans, Stephanie D ^a   Jones, Julia C ^a   Treiber, Nadine ^a   Galizia, C Giovanni ^a   Szyszka, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; ZEBULARINE;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BEES; CYTIDINE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; LEARNING; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862497091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039349     Document Type: Article

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