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

dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.creatorWeiner, Susan A.
dc.creatorGalbraith, David A.
dc.creatorAdams, Dean C.
dc.creatorValenzuela, Nicole
dc.creatorNoll, Fernando B.
dc.creatorGrozinger, Christina M.
dc.creatorToth, Amy L.
dc.date2014-05-27T11:30:04Z
dc.date2016-10-25T18:51:53Z
dc.date2014-05-27T11:30:04Z
dc.date2016-10-25T18:51:53Z
dc.date2013-08-01
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-06T02:33:01Z
dc.date.available2017-04-06T02:33:01Z
dc.identifierNaturwissenschaften, v. 100, n. 8, p. 795-799, 2013.
dc.identifier0028-1042
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/76100
dc.identifierhttp://acervodigital.unesp.br/handle/11449/76100
dc.identifier10.1007/s00114-013-1064-z
dc.identifierWOS:000321787200010
dc.identifier2-s2.0-84880760335
dc.identifier0000-0003-0207-1067
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-013-1064-z
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/896810
dc.descriptionDNA methylation plays an important role in the epigenetic control of developmental and behavioral plasticity, with connections to the generation of striking phenotypic differences between castes (larger, reproductive queens and smaller, non-reproductive workers) in honeybees and ants. Here, we provide the first comparative investigation of caste- and life stage-associated DNA methylation in several species of bees and vespid wasps displaying different levels of social organization. Our results reveal moderate levels of DNA methylation in most bees and wasps, with no clear relationship to the level of sociality. Strikingly, primitively social Polistes dominula paper wasps show unusually high overall DNA methylation and caste-related differences in site-specific methylation. These results suggest DNA methylation may play a role in the regulation of behavioral and physiological differences in primitively social species with more flexible caste differences. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
dc.languageeng
dc.relationNaturwissenschaften
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectDNA methylation
dc.subjectEpigenetics
dc.subjectEusociality
dc.subjectHymenoptera
dc.subjectPhenotypic plasticity
dc.subjectVespidae
dc.subjectant
dc.subjectcaste
dc.subjectDNA
dc.subjectentomology
dc.subjecteusociality
dc.subjecthoneybee
dc.subjectmethylation
dc.subjectphenotypic plasticity
dc.subjectphysiology
dc.subjectsocial insect
dc.subjectwasp
dc.subjectApis mellifera
dc.subjectApocrita
dc.subjectApoidea
dc.subjectFormicidae
dc.subjectHexapoda
dc.subjectPolistes
dc.subjectPolistinae
dc.titleA survey of DNA methylation across social insect species, life stages, and castes reveals abundant and caste-associated methylation in a primitively social wasp
dc.typeOtro


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