Epigenetic (re)programming of caste-specific behavior in the ant Camponotus floridanus

Science

Volumn 351, Issue 6268, 2016, Pages

  Simola, Daniel F ^a,b   Graham, Riley J ^b   Brady, Cristina M ^a,b   Enzmann, Brittany L ^c   Desplan, Claude ^d   Ray, Anandasankar ^e   Zwiebel, Laurence J ^f   Bonasio, Roberto ^a,b   Reinberg, Danny ^g   Liebig, Jürgen ^c   Berger, Shelley L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; CHROMATIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2;

ANT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BRAIN; CASTE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CATALYSIS; CELL PLASTICITY; CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; FORAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; INSECT CASTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKER (INSECT); ACETYLATION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS;

ANIMALIA; CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; HEXAPODA;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84952893898     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac6633     Document Type: Article

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