A survey of DNA methylation across social insect species, life stages, and castes reveals abundant and caste-associated methylation in a primitively social wasp

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 795-799

  Weiner, Susan A ^a   Galbraith, David A ^b   Adams, Dean C ^a,c   Valenzuela, Nicole ^a   Noll, Fernando B ^d   Grozinger, Christina M ^b   Toth, Amy L ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Eusociality; Hymenoptera; Phenotypic plasticity; Vespidae

Indexed keywords

ANT; CASTE; DNA; ENTOMOLOGY; EUSOCIALITY; HONEYBEE; METHYLATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; DNA METHYLATION; GENETICS; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEES; DNA METHYLATION; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; WASPS;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOCRITA; APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; POLISTES; POLISTINAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 84880760335     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-013-1064-z     Document Type: Article

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