Phenotypic plasticity: what has DNA methylation got to do with it?

EJ Duncan, CB Cunningham, PK Dearden - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Phenotypic plasticity, the genome producing multiple phenotypes, is
central to an animal's ability to respond to environmental change, expected or otherwise. A …

The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies

BP Oldroyd, B Yagound - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Eusocial insects can be defined as those that live in colonies and have distinct queens and
workers. For most species, queens and workers arise from a common genome, and so caste …

Changes in gene body methylation do not correlate with changes in gene expression in Anthozoa or Hexapoda

G Dixon, M Matz - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background As human activity alters the planet, there is a pressing need to understand how
organisms adapt to environmental change. Of growing interest in this area is the role of …

Genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) populations from spatial-environmental range extremes

SR Rahman, JD Lozier - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Unraveling molecular mechanisms of adaptation to complex environments is crucial to
understanding tolerance of abiotic pressures and responses to climatic change. Epigenetic …

Adapting to climate with limited genetic diversity: Nucleotide, DNA methylation and microbiome variation among populations of the social spider Stegodyphus …

A Aagaard, S Liu, T Tregenza, M Braad Lund… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the role of genetic and nongenetic variants in modulating phenotypes is
central to our knowledge of adaptive responses to local conditions and environmental …

The hologenome of Daphnia magna reveals possible DNA methylation and microbiome-mediated evolution of the host genome

A Chaturvedi, X Li, V Dhandapani… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Properties that make organisms ideal laboratory models in developmental and
medical research are often the ones that also make them less representative of wild …

Sex‐specific expression and DNA methylation in a species with extreme sexual dimorphism and paternal genome elimination

SA Bain, H Marshall, AG de la Filia… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic differences between sexes are often mediated by differential expression and
alternative splicing of genes. However, the mechanisms that regulate these expression and …

DNA methylation is not a driver of gene expression reprogramming in young honey bee workers

CAM Cardoso‐Júnior, B Yagound, I Ronai… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of DNA methylation marks within genic intervals, also called gene body
methylation, is an evolutionarily‐conserved epigenetic hallmark of animal and plant …

Epigenetic regulation and division of labor in social insects

LA Okwaro, J Korb - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Methylation cannot be dismissed in regulating division of labor in social
insects.•Histone modifications seem to play a role during division of labor.•Future studies …

DNA methylation is associated with codon degeneracy in a species of bumblebee

H Marshall, MT Nicholas, JS Van Zweden, F Wäckers… - Heredity, 2023 - nature.com
Social insects display extreme phenotypic differences between sexes and castes even
though the underlying genome can be almost identical. Epigenetic processes have been …