… In order to explore the relationship between DNA methylation and gene … methylation of
social insects always occurred in exons, but the position of methylation in non-social insects …

… The honey bee is a social insect … that DNA methylation plays important roles in caste
differentiation. To further explore the roles of DNA methylation in this process, we analyzed DNA …

… stabilises phenotypic specialisation in the long term, we would expect methylation to be … of
DNA methylation marks(33). Indeed, we observed a partial erasure of DNA methylation in the …

… in social insects. Increasing evidence in the last two decades for heritable influences on
division of labor put an end to the assumption that social insect … erasure of DNA methylation, …

… the localization of DNA methylation in insect genomes and further … DNA methylation to
nucleosome stability, which may explain the context-dependent associations of DNA methylation …

… Social insects provide excellent … of DNA methylation in organisms with different levels of
complexity by allowing scientists to determine how epigenetic networks have evolved in insects …

… (7) that a major eusocial insect lineage (Vespidae) is missing a crucial component of the …
de novo DNA methylation puts an end to the view that DNMT3-mediated DNA methylation is a …

… DNA methylation could affect worker size variation in social … sized workers, larval DNA
methylation has been shown to … by pharmacologically altering larval DNA methylation: when …

… Also in honeybees, the switch between different types of non-reproductive worker roles
has been shown to involve DNA methylation [19]. In social insects, there are many potential …

… an important mechanism of gene regulation in insects/invertebrates. While the progress in
… that social insects, in particular honey bees, wasps and ants have a DNA methylation toolkit …