DNA methylation in social insects: How epigenetics can control behavior and longevity

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2015, Pages 435-452

  Yan, Hua ^a   Bonasio, Roberto ^b   Simola, Daniel F ^b   Liebig, Jürgen ^d   Berger, Shelley L ^b,c   Reinberg, Danny ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Environment; Gene body methylation; Plasticity; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPTERA; LONGEVITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPTERA; LONGEVITY;

EID: 84920862329     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-010814-020803     Document Type: Review

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